Sphere over Ekron, KY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
we were driving south on old ekron road approximately 2 miles from shumate road intersection. the back passenger rear of my ranger lit up bright orange we looked to see and there was a very bright round object in a descending path, approximatelu=y 300 feet in air, hard to tell how far away it was because it was so bright, i actually looked away and had night blindness, it was descending about 20 degrees below horizon until it went out of sight, it could have been over the ohio river, i am an engineer and i estimate it was traveling at least 2 times the speed of sound, however no sonic boom and it apparently did not hit the ground . we did not see any flames or hear an impact. i have never seen a ufo or reported one before however i have seen shooting stars and meteors and comets, this was nothing like that.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118073). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-03-25 → 2015-04-11
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