Circle over Pawnee County (location unspecified), NE
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Red green white flashing between colours sphere in southeast sky heading west then later spotted heading east. Then changed directions again from east to west and back to east again. While watching sphere. A plane or what looked like a plane headed toward flashing sphere. Sphere lights seem to die down a bit and possible plane change altitude to fly low under sphere after plane passed and was a distance away sphere light got brighter again. Could the flashing sphere been a weather balloon? Possibly a "twinkling" star? PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131002). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-10-31 → 2016-11-17