Circle over Chamois, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was out smoking and looked up at the sky and noticed a red and orange light. It looked like some kind of object on fire in the sky. It was moving very slowly, so I grabbed my mother and showed her, she got super freaked out . I snapped a photo of the object and it then it disappeared into the night sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135053). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-07-05 → 2017-07-22