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Mason City, IA

Sighted on Tuesday 21. October 2014
Reported on
Shape: Fireball | Duration: 5-7 minutes
Source:

At around 22:25 my wife and I are getting I the car to go to work when we saw an orange fireball in the west sky traveling from south to north it was very slow moving the light went from dim to bright many times we could only see it for about 5 min before it had passed a tree line and was out of our sight

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