Circle over PHONEX, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object was very circular, and it was piercing white.. The trail it had behind it was fanned out very wide and extremely bright...It was followed by , in the cloud, a bright, concaved light pointed toward the first object and the colors, as it fanned out toward the initial object, were the colors of the rainbow.. It lasted about 15min. max and several neighbors witnessed this with me.It traveled up from the west horizon and then it traveled at a steady trajectory and kept the same velocity as it went directly below the southern horizon...I captured this on my cell phone video...it is available.. Missile launch from Vandenberg AFB @ 5:26 p.m.. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138016). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-18 → 2018-01-04