Fireball over Thatcher, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Went to my friends house and just as i pulled up in the yard i noticed a fireball just above the trees coming out of the north heading south. It hovered there a few minutes, My friend came out and i said what the hell is that, about that time it took of to the east at a high rate of speed only taking about 10 seconds to reach the gilas. A few minutes later a second one did the same thing then a third. I left and went home. I heard no sound.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138865). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-02-14 → 2018-03-03
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