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As reported

Fireball over Sullivan, OH

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I submitted a report earlier but have since found a reasonable explanation from a fellow camper at the same campground, when I posted it on social media: “ As I was leaving Saturday at 10:30 I saw a group of people launching one of those “memorial” hot air mini balloons that you light a fire on a pan suspended under a paper “balloon” over by the little pond. Sounds like that’s what you saw.”

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157709). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-07-15 → 2020-08-01

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July 18, 2020 · 10:31 PM · FIREBALL

Sullivan, OH

Sullivan, Ohio, Saturday July 18, 10:31 PM. Sighting occurred while sitting on the deck at our camper on a partly cloudy night. We saw a roundish, glowing, orange ball glide across the sky from south to north. It moved with the silence, steadiness, and speed of a satellite but it was definitely below the clouds and visible to the horizon, where we lost sight of it due to trees. It was a soft orange glow; easily visible but not bright, just a glowing ball of fire gliding across the sky. My husband, the typical naysayer who doesn’t believe anything he cannot see for himself said “Well, it took almost 60 years but there it is; I don’t know what that was.”