Fireball over Hogansville, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There was a fairly large star that fell toward the horizon. It moved extremely fast through the sky, so there was no way it could’ve been a satellite, meridian flare, shooting star, airplane, drone, or space capsule. It was very far away from us in the sky. We ruled most of those things out because there was no fire under or around it. It just looked like a very bright star.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146127). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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