Oval over Riggins, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Unbelievable speed and able to stop and hover with no sound.
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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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 2005-04-30 → 2005-05-17
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