Oval over Phelps, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Driving home from work and we saw a light in the sky and when we got closer to it, it was very low to the ground and doing circles. We stopped the car and when it noticed we stopped it bolted off at abnormal speed, not like an airplanes or a jet.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #117431). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-02-18 → 2015-03-07
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