Unknown over Saint John, KS
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The report, as filed
My husband and I went to our backyard to watch fireworks. To the north of us there was someone setting off a lot of fireworks. I saw these two red lights that I assumed were a plane. They would flash green for a few seconds then back to red. The only thing that made me think it was not a plane was that it stood still. I asked my husband if he saw it. He assumed as well it was a plane because it started to move, but then stopped and hovered. Once the object started moving the lights stopped flashing to green and stayed a constant red. We stood there and watched it for 10 min just hovering in the sky. I realize this could have been a helicopter, it moved and hovered like one, but the lights didn't flash. They stayed a consistent red. After ten min it moved to the east and out of site.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111070). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-01 → 2014-07-18