Flash over Richmond, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
5 of us were on our pontoon boat and I saw a horizontal flash of light in 3 separate lines across the sky…there is no way it was a plane… It only lasted a few seconds, but it was bright..then gone. The length of the light flashes was 3 times longer than a jet from the distance I saw it…it was not lightning as there was not a cloud in the sky
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120840). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-07-28 → 2015-08-14
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