Sphere over Slate Hill, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I have been watching this thing on and off for several days. At dusk, and sometimes late into the evening, I have been observing a very bright light that seems to pulsate from white to red. With binoculars, it is clearly a spherical glowing white orb or disk encircled by rotating red lights. It hovers in the sky Southwest of my house, for 20 minutes or more, then disappears. Last night I observed it, and watched it with my binoculars on and off for a hour. It hovered in place, with the red lights rotating. Some evenings it seems closer to my house, but last night it was the furthest away I have observed, yet the binoculars were able to pick up details and shapes quite clearly. When I went to look later, it was gone. We suspect a "twinkling" star. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #130561). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-03 → 2016-10-20
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