Unknown over Santa Clara, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The light continued from that location for as long as it took to drive to Santa Clara. It was just breaking daylight and I could tell as I neared Santa Clara that the light emitting UFO was just above and to the east of Santa Clara. When the sky became visible blue color I could see the object was still there shining its light. It was many thousands of feet in the air but appeared to be circular shapes, it was still in the sky when I left the area. Too small to capture on my camera. We suspect a sighting of Venus. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111450). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-08 → 2014-07-25