Light over LaFayette, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object was pulsating in the western sky, it did not appear to move in any direction. The object would pulsat from orange in color to a bright white, it got larger in size the brighter it got. In approximately 5 minutes of seeing the object, it went from a bright white to blue in color and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133046). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-03-06 → 2017-03-23