Fireball over Rainbow City, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was a floating orange fireball that would intensify and then dim. It did this a few times and got real bright and disappeared. It was silent.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164959). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-10-12 → 2021-10-29
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