Light over Litchfield, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 3:30 hours, I went outside for a cigarette, while I was star gazing I noticed a bright light in the west northwest sky at about my one o'clock (I was facing west). It's intensity was a little bit brighter than that of Venus. It moved from the west northwest to the east southeast at a steady pace. I looked very carefully for strobing lights like an airplane would have even using my hand to block out street lights. There were not any strobe light that I could see. This is a quiet little town and as such I would normally have been able to hear the light rumble of jet engines, but there was none. Nor were there any visible contrails behind it although there was not a moon in the sky at the time. It reminded me of a satellite crossing the sky except the fact that satellites travel from south to north here (at least the ones I've ever seen here). I watched it till it was out of sight and then came in to make this report.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127593). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-05-27 → 2016-06-13
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