Light over St. Joe (SW of), AR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We witnessed a bright light due East from our location moving erratically. It then stopped, grew really bright, and then dim, and dropped approx. 1000 ' in altitude. It then went bright again and shot off perpendicular to its drop in altitude and (Think 'L')stopped. At this point it dimmed to almost nothing, and then changed to a reddish color and shot off at an angle of maybe 15° upwards and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131686). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-17 → 2016-11-03