Unknown over North Salem, NH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw an extremely bright orange object of traveling from an East to Westerly direction across the night sky about the same altitude of a helicopter would normally travel. This was not a combustion aircraft because there was no engine noise of any kind coming from the object, it was completely silent. (That’s what drew my attention to it). The object was quite large judging from the circumference of the light . I would put it just a bit larger than a hot air balloon that carries passengers, but those balloons do not fly at night and cannot travel at the speed this object was traveling which was about the same speed of a small single engine plane. I would rather not give my info, just wanted to report what I saw so others would know it was seen by this person, as well. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #121405). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
Ask for the records
What would the paper say?
For a dated, located U.S. sighting, FAA radar data and ATC communications are the records most likely to exist. Through Aletheca, the house instrument, anyone can commission the request — filed, chased, and published in the open, refusals included. The draft goes over already written: the records sought, and the date window they would live in.
Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-08-19 → 2015-09-05