Fireball over Mattapan, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looke out my window. I saw what looked like a fireball. It stopped and I watched it for a minute then it took off at lightning speeds. Inside the ball looked like a roaring fire. Like the sun. An hour later I saw 2 sets of small grey balls or spheres flying in formation shaped like a triangle and moving very slowly. It was going in the direction that the fireball came from.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161400). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-09-01 → 2020-09-18