Fireball over Wayne, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
So me and my brother were driving home through this town. And up in the sky was these bright orange yellow lights. At first we thought it was a helicopter because it pirouetted twice. But it wasn't blinking. So this is the country side and alot of people have airplanes, so then we thought it was a plane on fire, because it was falling and spinning and it was so bright. But then it leveled of at about 80 feet. And in a blink of an eye it was atleast 3 miles away then just disappeared. I called a friend the next day and she lives in this town and she saw it too and thought it was a crashing plane. But I'm telling you it was not!!! And there was no sound, which I found odd.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #152524). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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