Flash over Big Pine, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was startled of course so I looked everywhere and up to see a rocket like figure almost like a space ship, human of course, like the Apollo darting across the sky, but very bright and white, and much larger, it lasted only a half a second, I don't believe it's alien but extraordinary, living in this area we have many mililltary bases near by including china lake so I'm used to it but ((deleted)) it was cool!! We have changed the time of the event, to reflect a nighttime sighting. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113015). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-25 → 2014-09-11
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