Unknown over Rootstown, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was star gazing when I saw a strange moving light in the lower part of the horizon South-Southeast towards Randolph-Atwater. At first I thought it was a plane but it was moving randomly in the same region of the sky. It alternated between white, red, and maybe blueish lights. I next thought it was a law enforcement helicopter doing IR sweeps but the movements were too eratic and always in the same area of the sky. From my perspective it moved easily an 1"-1.5" in any direction at any given time.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128182). 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
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