Fireball over Somers point, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
3 glowing balls of orange light following a straight path one after the other hundreds of feet apart, headed north east. Disappeared/ and or accended into clouds. No sound. No flickering.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170605). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-07-19 → 2022-08-05