Fireball over West Henrietta, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I walked outside and saw what appeared to be an orange twinkling star like thing hovering over something. It was much lower than any plane would fly and my initial thought was why is that star so large and orange? I have never seen anything like this in all of my 35 years on this earth. I cannot stop wondering what I saw in the sky.i stared at it fascinated by the size color and twinkling.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149293). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-29 → 2019-09-15