Fireball over Mastic Beach, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Fireball was hovering low outside my bedroom window, facing south. The fire started to move upward and then backward. The fireball moved slowly east in a up and down zigzag motion. I heard numerous car horns beeping in the distance. Lost sight of the fireball as it moved southeast. I have a video and the fireball was not shooting across the sky like a meteor. I called Suffolk County Police to make a report.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #152749). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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