Unknown over Atlanta, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend and I were sitting outside of our campsite watching the sunrise over the mountains, and suddenly a bright flash appeared in the distance. It moved very quickly away and flashed 5 times while moving. Then it just disappeared. I have seem aircraft and satellites, but this was nothing like that. It was an extremely bright flash and appeared to be moving outward at a tremendous speed before just disappearing. The sky was clear and was moving away from the mountains so there was no way it could have disappeared behind something.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128311). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-06-30 → 2016-07-17