Disk over Brushton, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I went outside to feed the dogs and heard a low humming above and in front of me. I looked up to see a disc-shaped craft coming towards me fast, it stopped a few hundred feet above and behind the power lines, hovered a second, then took off faster then I've ever seen anything fly. Up close...if you blinked you missed it. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he seemed to us to be both sincere, and serious-minded. We have posted his photo to our website, although we have no idea what the object in the photo is. We allow for the possibility that the anomalous object could be a bird, with its wings swept far forward. The lack of symmetry suggests to us that the object may not be an alien spacecraft. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134470). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-06-05 → 2017-06-22