Chevron over Elmwood, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw a bright blue light slowly decend from the sky, a lot bigger, brighter, and slower than a shooting star.
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?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. 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: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2002-08-18 → 2002-09-04
From the same sky