Light over East Charleston, VT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Note: The US Border Patrol sometimes flies fairly large drones along the nearby Canadian border and I have seen these several times. This object was not a drone. The light coming from the object was a steady, brilliant orange (not red) and very unusual. The weather conditions were not conducive to small aircraft and this object did not display proper FAA lighting.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116255). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-12-24 → 2015-01-10