Changing over Courtland, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I first noticed anything in the sky 4 nights before I observed the object I recorded the last night. On the first night I noticed that there was a real bright star above my house and it looked as if maybe was barely twinkling then. I kept a watch on it and it never moved but was really bright. Well on the 4th night I went outside and was staring at it and then that's when it split apart into the 3 sections with red blinking lights on each end of it. It turned and twisted and then a whole bunch of rainbow colors exploded out of it and it made a design pattern with the lights for about 30 seconds then the colors went away and then it came back into a round looking bright star then just slowly went away. Star or planet? Possible hoax?? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #119125). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-05-17 → 2015-06-03