Circle over Long Island City (Queens), NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was coming home from grocery shopping and had my sun glasses on, but noticed a few really bright lights in the sky when I looked up. There was one large silver circular shape surrounded by a few smaller ones (I am not sure how many, as a few of them spread apart from it, while a couple stayed). I kept looking back up to see if it could possibly be a few planes near each other, or maybe a blimp, but the large one stayed in the same spot and more of the smaller ones spread out and vanished. When I reached my street about 10 minutes later, the larger one moved to the right, then back to the left and flew off faster and vanished.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #110249). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-06-12 → 2014-06-29
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