Sphere over McQuady, KY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were driving on highway 261 in McQuady, Ky. The day was sunny, blue skies, no clouds. It's an old country road. At the top of the tree line level, a metallic sphere, pinkish red color nucleus, approximately 5 feet in circumference, traveled above our car at tree line level. This sphere was on a flight pattern. It crossed the road ahead of us from right side to the left side and then kept this pattern of flight until it was out of our view because of the thick woods. It's flight pattern was about 40 feet in the air. The speed was approx. 15 miles per hour. We never saw anything like this in our lives! Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127275). 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 2016-05-04 → 2016-05-21