Sphere over Hawthorne/Gardena, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At around 10 pm me and my friend saw some type of aircraft flying in sight from my backyard. It was a bright green orb with 4 red dots on the back. This object was flying in patterns no man made air craft on planet earth could. The ufo was scanning the aircraft on the LAX flight route just where the planes go in for the landing. Every time a plane flew by the UFO scanned each plane. This whole ordeal lasted 10 minutes
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #109287). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-05-08 → 2014-05-25