Oval over Albert Lea, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was a round blue that glowed and moved toward us slow without making any noise.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
Sightings from the Project Blue Book era (through 1969) live in Record Group 341 at the National Archives. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: National Archives and Records Administration · records window 1963-07-08 → 1963-07-25
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August 4, 2023 · 7:45 PM · SPHERE
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I was at work out in the front parking lot and on the edge of some dark storm clouds moving in 5 very bright balls of light just appeared out of nowhere and was not a plane or anything they just sat in a line for about a minute or 2 and vanished somehow instantly I also took a video I would like to share of this from my work truck.
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I observed two very bright lights in the western sky. They were at a diagonal from each other with the right light being slightly lower
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Albert Lea, MN
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