Light over Orange County, VT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As I was looking to the South, I noticed a bright flash of light about 20 degrees above the horizon. At first I thought it was an iridium solar panel flashing up, but the star like light source went from bright to a medium dim over a second or so, then the same thing happened another 20 degrees or so above the previous light source, doing the same thing. Then a few seconds later I noticed the same thing directly to the West about 40 degrees above the horizon. All of these sources of light stayed stationary and dimmed from a medium brightness to a very low over five or so minutes, but it was hard to tell with fog and cloud cover coming over the valley. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135442). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-07-24 → 2017-08-10