Changing over El Monte, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At around 21:49 on Sunday August 7th, 2014, we were coming from the market and taking the groceries into the house. I looked up into the sky and told my girlfriend "look babe Mars." The object looked like a star, but since it was red I believed it was Mars. Then it started glowing orange also, which was odd. Then my girlfriends mother also started looking at it and said it might be a helicopter but it was way too high to be one. And planes do not shine that bright at that altitude. Then it started moving slowly towards the west. It looked like it was turning and just like that it disappeared. No plane that I know of or helicopter can disappear that quick, or turn at that radius as quick as that object did. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111250). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-02 → 2014-07-19
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