Formation over Mosca, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We have looked at the photographs, and the object in question appears to us probably to be the wingbeats of a flying insect, flying in a straight line. We do not believe the object is an alien spacecraft. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129479). 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 2016-08-21 → 2016-09-07