Fireball over Canisteo, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving through the countryside, when I seen a shooting star. I thought it look weird coming in fast at a weird angle (upside down sharp-curved like). Then it disappeared. Then 1 minute later, I saw a flickering light hovering above a heavily wooded area. The light shine so brightly, almost like an LED light except you could see the beam of light shining below. The big white light shine through the tree tops. It was suspended low in the tree line. The light flickering white, yellow, then bright white again. The beam only shone through the trees when it flicker to bright white. This lasted only a few seconds before completely vanishing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159219). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-09-03 → 2020-09-20
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