As reported

Changing over Goodlettsville, TN

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I saw what looked like a large orange fireball hovering, it then shrunk to the size and color of a star.

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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1994-10-11 → 1994-10-28

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June 10, 2022 · 10:40 PM · LIGHT

Goodlettsville, TN

Deep orange light moderately moving through lower sky, 4-6 times larger than typical Venus viewing. Clearly, the second brightest object in the sky, after the moon. Caught sight when it was due north, it moved towards the west in a deliberate moderate pace staying at the same altitude. Absolutely, no sound, no navigation or beacon lights. Halfway through the total time seen the light began to slowly dim but not uniformly, it did not fade in a linear fashion, it seemed more sporadic or inconsistent. Once the light was completely extinguished, I was able to continue to view whatever had generated it. It was more or less the same size and I could see its contrast against the moonlit sky (The moon was about 3\4 full, sky was clear with no cloud cover in any direction). Could not see any details or exact shape, I could just see this indistinct dark spot traveling at the same pace until it past some trees that ruined my line of sight. The light itself was an amazing deep orange color, not a fireball and NOT vivid like an LED, it was deep warm orange, uniform in color until it began to turn off. Although, not fast by airplane standards, it was too fast to be a drone and the color of the light was not like an LED as are drones. The light was organic-like in color, like a gaslight or a flame but not flickering.

April 18, 2016 · 9:28 PM · UNKNOWN

Goodlettsville, TN

I looked up into the sky and saw an object moving around, appearing as a row of 6 or 7 lights across what I would say was the front of it. This appeared to be one object – not 6 or 7 objects. I got the impression it could have been round, but could only see it as a row or line of lights. The lights were usually white, sometimes there would be a red light or two that would appear, and then vanish. At times it appeared the lights were rotating, but there was no consistent pattern. The moon was bright in the sky and even though there was a very thin layer of haze from clouds, for the most part the sky appeared clear. It was possible to see the stars through the haze. Size of the object was difficult to estimate. The “front” of the object appeared to be similar to what the length of a typical commercial passenger jet would be at that same position in the sky. What caught my attention the most was the way the object was moving – up, down, side to side, back and forth, fast, slow, doing “turns on a dime”, and having such sudden acceleration to “hop” around the sky while it was changing its direction. Sometimes it was moving fast, other times slower. No conventional aircraft – plane (jet or not), blimp, or helicopter – could have done these maneuvers, especially at speed. It displayed varying rates of speed, which were not linear, and it did not matter whether it was climbing, turning, etc. There was no correlation of direction of movement to change of speed. It certainly wasn’t a balloon, either. The area of the sky in which it appeared is just west of the usual flight path of jets, yet there were no aircraft in the area that I could see until right before it disappeared. I have lived near military bases and airports and have never seen aircraft do these types of maneuvers. I did attempt to video the object but there was too much ambient light for it to show up.

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