Circle over Moorland, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I live in the country miles from any town. I was just looking up in the sky and saw a circular light that caught my eye because it was moving slow and appeared to slightly zig zag. It had no marker lights just a single white light. It flew over and it didn't go far past me and went straight up and disappeared in about two seconds. I am a 35 year aircraft maintenance technician, and have never seen anything like this.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135615). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-08-04 → 2017-08-21