Formation over Russia, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It is a heavily wooded area. I still have the picture. I walked the area several times trying to figure out what it could have been. I can not explain where the lights came from.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129411). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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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 2016-07-31 → 2016-08-17