Fireball over Lake Keowee, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While sitting in our boat night fishing with 6 year old grand daughter we saw a bright red light high in the sky and it come from nowhere. I started to film with my iPhone so I couldn’t zoom in real good. I decided to take a photo and when I did it vanished. When looking at photo I decided to hold down photo and view live action. While taking the pic we saw that it didn’t just vanish but flew off at a high speed and then it was gone. The sky was very clear last night with no clouds and being on the Lake there were no lights around. The bright red Solid object was moving at a good speed. There were no blinking lights or anything. The images I captured were no great but the Live Photo did show it vanish quickly.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156501). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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