Sphere over Elmont, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As I walked out of my house, I initially heard a strange mechanical type of sound which lasted approximately 2 seconds. I then noticed some lights in the sky moving in a set pattern. Three large balls of light - looked like large spotlights - moving in various patterns in the southeastern sky. Not sure when it actually started, but I spotted it at approximately 1:15 AM. Light pattern was in independent eclipses - like an atom circling a nucleus. Then the pattern changed to larger circles repelling each other. Then the pattern changed to two lights in a figure eight pattern. We tried to photograph it, but the cell phone didn't pick up anything. Finally went inside after about an hour but the lights patterns were still occurring.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122100). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-09-12 → 2015-09-29
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