Fireball over Eldorado, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Sitting on my porch with my daughter and looked like size of a hula hoop large orange white red. Looked like a ball of fire streeked past right above the trees in my yard and disappeared over trees toward placerville ca It came from south going north east It seemed too large to be a shooting star . What is a fireball anyway I looked it up and it is similar to what I saw
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160002). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-10-08 → 2020-10-25