Fireball over Victoria, BC · Canada
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We spotted this object above our home last night at approximately 10:15 pm. It was oddly shaped and looked like a fireball flying horizontally the way an airplane would in a fairly straight line. We were on our back patio and as the object flew over our roof I ran to the front of the house and it seemed to take a 90° turn and then fly into the distance quite quickly. It all of a sudden was just gone. It was like a light flicked off
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175282). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Department of National Defence (Canada) · records window 2023-04-05 → 2023-04-22
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