Disk over Snowflake (toward; near), AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
When I ran to get binoculars, the friend that was with me, saw 3 of them. Looking through the binoculars, I could see they were continuing to change formation. Before running to get a camera, the last I saw of the front one was that it took off in high gear at a very steep angle upward (nearly straight up). By the time I came back with a camera, they were gone. What was REALLY eerie is that this exact date was the 42nd anniversary of Travis Walton being abducted by a UFO near Snowflake. Creepy for sure! I am not even a person that believed in alien UFO's, but what other explanation is there?
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137349). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-11-02 → 2017-11-19