Fireball over Smithers (Canada), BC · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My husband and I were walking our dog on Christmas eve. We look up and see a glowing reddish yellow ball in the sky, we joke and say it's Santa, but then realize it's not a helicopter or a plane. It was kind of pulsating and changing colour from yellow to red. It moved slowly for a minute or two, and then just stopped for another minute, and then it moved a little bit and disappear into the sky as we watched it. I did take a bad video, but you can still see it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #152057). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2019-12-21 → 2020-01-07
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