Light over Litchfield Park, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A bright white light with a huge circular aura appeared SSW 260 deg appeared for a few minutes. There was no sound associated and the sky was clear with no clouds. Looked like a planes headlight but the aura was perfectly round and the aura looked like a smoky bubble. The white light disappeared but the bubble was lit in white light for another 2 minutes. Then a blue light appeared in the aura and remained for another ten minutes, fading gradually. The blue light resembled a comets tail headed away from us but there was no movement. U. S. Navy missile launch. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #123734). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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