Circle over Reston, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Reston, VA, at ~21:30z: Extremely fast multi-colored object moving at the trajectory of a passenger plane for 2 sec and disappering, i.e. dissolving entirely and instantly...its speed was roughly 4x speed of an airplane that flew a few minutes later.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130202). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-09-22 → 2016-10-09
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