Light over Nashport, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I am an amateur pilot, I am 67 years old my wife is 66 years old a retired school teacher. We are always looking up at aircraft. The thing that struck us funny was there were no blinking red or green lights, nor white lights. They were steady bright orange lights. The other thing that was strange was, there was no sound. It was perfectly quiet. Small aircraft flying over I always hear the engines running and jet aircraft I just about always hear the jet engines, unless they are flying at extremely high altitudes. These craft were moving at a very steady pace, that of a small Cessna 172 if it was flying about 1500 feet above the ground. There should have been sound. Not being any sound flying the speed they appeared to be going, they could have been going at mach speed with no sonic boom. It was very strange
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #129719). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-08-30 → 2016-09-16