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3D model Narrated

“Fire in the Sky”

Stories2

Travis Walton Abduction

November 5, 1975 · Turkey Springs, Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest, near Heber, Navajo County, Arizona

United States

UAP · Being / humanoid · 45 sources

26Thinly documented

The Big Wheel of Fire on the Grey Stone Road, Isle of Man (published 1902)

1902 · Ballakillowey, Rushen parish, Isle of Man

Isle of Man

UAP · Other · 18 sources

5Thinly documented

Names4

Unsolved Mysteries Programme · 27 stories
A television series that kept returning to the strangest nights in the archive.
Holloman AFB Place · 5 stories
An air base in New Mexico, and a launch point for things that later filled the sky.
Lake Erie Place · 5 stories
Lake Erie runs through this archive as a shoreline of strange things.
Fortean Society Organisation · 2 stories
Its magazine was called Doubt.

Documents195 · see all

Non-Orbit Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 10 December 1953-2 M Arch 1 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-04-03· 6 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 1 …in 00-W-29903 in the item entitled "Explosion in Sky Breaks Windows at Dieppe." ## Belgium BALL OF FIRE SEEN…
- p. 2 …in 00-W-29903 in the item entitled "Explosion in Sky Breaks Windows at Dieppe." Belgium BALL OF FIRE SEEN…
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-03-02· 8 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 6 …on the morning of 7 January by a loud crash, accompanied by a dazzling light in the sky. The explosion…
- p. 7 …fire which was seen over large parts of Skaane, Blekinge, Smaaland, and west coast of Sweden passed through the sky…
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-04-20· 4 pages· 2 pages mention it
- p. 3 …Several students of the College de Luneville also saw the object. UNEXPLAINED PHENOMENON IN PUY-DE-DOME :SKY -- Nice, Nice…
- p. 4 …fire which was seen over large parts of Skaane, Blekinge, Smaaland, and west coast of Sweden passed through the sky…
Non-Orbit Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects, 10 December 1953-2 March 1954 FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1954-05-26· 3 pages· 1 page mentions it
- p. 1 …in OO-W-29903 in the item entitled "Explosion in Sky Breaks Windows at Dieppe." ## Belgium BALL OF FIRE SEEN…
Sightings of Unidentified Flying Objects Over Spain and Africa, July - O Ctober FOIA release

Central Intelligence Agency· 1952-10-01· 8 pages· 3 pages mention it
- p. 7 …itself in a ring of fire, zig-zagging upward and remaining in the same area of the sky. As it…
- p. 8 …itself in a ring of fire, zig-zagging upward and remaining in the same area of the sky. As it…
box Incident Summaries 101-172 Official release

U.S. Department of War· 178 pages· 4 pages mention it
- p. 5 …Suddenly there was a great cloud of smoke in the sky, not more than 40 seconds after it left my…
- p. 98 …ball of fire of orange color with a streamer of bluish color trailing, traveled thru the sky in a westerly…

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Videos4

Video1948

Newly released UFO files detail mysterious 'Green Fireballs' seen in the sky

From The Green Fireballs over New Mexico

Video1975

Fire in the Sky (1993) trailer

From Travis Walton Abduction

Video2023

Vegas police respond to report of '10-foot creature' in yard after green flash across sky

From Las Vegas Backyard Alien 911 Call and Bodycam Fireball

Video2023

Raw video: Las Vegas police share clearer video of bright flash in sky

From Las Vegas Backyard Alien 911 Call and Bodycam Fireball