Cigar over Silverlake, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was sitting at a stop sign when I looked up and noticed something hovering in the sky that looked like a golden glowing rod. I watched it as it remained stationary. I noticed an orb come out of the right side of the rod and circle around the rod. I then noticed a second orb appear and fly around the rod. After a few minutes, the rod disappeared and i saw a third orb appear from out of nowhere from a distance to the left and fly towards the other 2 orbs. I asked a guy walking his dog to look up and told him what I was seeing and as soon as he looked up, all of the crafts disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130183). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-09-21 → 2016-10-08