Sphere over Creston, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was orange with a little bit of red, and when my grandpa was out it was about 15x the size from when I saw it. There weren't any blinking lights or sounds, and it was just going one direction. I'm going to guess it was only a mile and a half away, because it was still pretty big when I got to see it. It was moving pretty fast, and flying really low. But not really low.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131081). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-11-04 → 2016-11-21
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