As reported

Oval over Gatlinburg, TN

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I'm not quite sure what I saw but I'm for sure it was not an airplane of some sort. It had red and green lighting around this craft.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120322). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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