Disk over Vandalia, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
This site would not let me copy and paste the Word Document into this box, so here is my full sighting description: Report Time: 10:22PM Location: Vandalia, OH Sighting Time: 9:50PM Report: My boyfriend and I were driving East on State Route 40/National Rd., driving past the Dayton International Airport. I look to my right, and see TWO bright lights (one flying object). We think nothing of it at first. I follow it with my eyes and see it start to speed up. It begins to go so fast that I am now looking at it straight on as we proceed to go East on National. It begins to proceed to the left, but then it stops midair. The object then begins to start heading right. That is when we decide to follow it. The object then starts to go left again. We thought, maybe this was a helicopter, but then, logically thinking, a helicopter would not have been going that fast. As the object proceeds going left, it starts to go downward, then back up, then down again behind a building. And that was the last we saw it. Please do not take this as a joke, we truly believe we witnessed a UFO tonight.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116543). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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