Fireball over Newtripoli, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was 7:15 PM still light out during a soccer game it was very bright and small and I thought to myself I might be just an airplane but then it started to get bigger and then it turned and it’s like the light shines off of it and it look like metal. It’s still in one spot it was a fireball it would’ve traveled but instead it was just getting bigger and staying in one spot and then another one appeared behind it like it split in half. I have a video of it I do not know how to post it it stayed in one spot for a good five minutes and then disappeared. I am 42 years old and have never seen anything like this before. I did not see this part but my son said that he seen army helicopters circling where the object was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171932). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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