Fireball over Athens, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A bright white light flying relatively low to the ground flew halfway through my observable sky from the cover of the tree line behind me at a tremendous speed, proceeding to take an almost perfect hard 90° left turn without slowing down at all and then vanishing out of my line of sight at an unfathomable speed. All of this occurred without the craft making any sound whatsoever.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164492). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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