Fireball over Malverne, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My cousin an I were looking up at the sky when we noticed a bright orange or fire colored object moving across sky. Object was moving in a straight horizontal line at pretty fast speed relative to apparent altitude. However, we were not able to distinguish any features due to brightness of object. We followed it down the street in which it appeared to get smaller and smaller and disappear. The distance it covered was not far enough to become that small before disappearing. There was no sound so it couldn't of been a helicopter and no wind to propel a paper fire lantern that fast.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160871). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-25 → 2020-12-12
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