Circle over Gowen, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Sitting at a bonfire with wife children and buddy and his wife i noticed a bright white light in the distance coming from west heading east at first thought it was plane but had no red or blue flashers the size was about the size of a dime when first noticed as it came closer the size grew smaller object then over top of us disappeared as we sat looking up where the object was a flash like a shooting star from where the object disappeared shot directly to the north at an indescribable rate of speed
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111839). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-16 → 2014-08-02