Oval over Big Flats, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I went outside to check our gutters, since it was raining heavily. While looking up toward the gutters and the sky, I notice a very large object that blinked, and moved in a totally different direction than when I first noticed it. It blinked again and it once again was in another direction, The object was huge like the size of a football field. It blinked a third time and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136654). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-10-06 → 2017-10-23
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