Fireball over Silverthorne, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While sitting on the back porch of a friend's house located right at the base of a mountain, I noticed 3 bright, moving dots that seemed to be hovering directly over the mountaintop. I assumed they were satellites or drones until I noticed one move at lightning speed to the other side of the mountain while another dot disappeared and then reappeared. At one point two dots with a halo merged together and formed what I could only describe as a ball of white, static energy, growing and morphing into a larger orbe of vibrating, fast-moving, blue-green particles. Even more shocking was a white light that appeared from the dark and quickly morphed into a bright, glowing trickle of bright strings. It looked like glowing tentacles that began to dispense additional moving, glowing light trickling down the night sky and all around its location. It was truly the most shocking and incredible thing I have ever seen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176585). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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