Fireball over West Haven, CT
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The report, as filed
Big round fireball was right outside the window Dr. Luis and I were arguing if it was Venus or tower I grab my phone to focus on it and I could see that it was a round fiery object with blue light plasma around it but when I took the lens off it just looks like an amber color I went to take a picture of it and it shut up Into the sky If you blinked you missed it when I looked at the picture it showed an object totally different from the light shooting up in the sky it looked more like a TicTac
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166319). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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