Fireball over Vernal/Naples, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
we are looking west as we walk out toward the trucks from house as seen at the bottom of screen . It was coming at us going East, then stopped for about a minute then started going back toward the west over The hill going west toward Roosevelt . A few miles away it shot straight up into the sky out of sight. Strangest anomaly I have seen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161500). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-12-24 → 2021-01-10