Light over Pineywoods/Sipsey area, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was pulling up to my house and seen a bright light brighter than a star or an airplane with multiple color flashing lights around it it hovered over the trees off in the distance and as I was getting out of my car it look like it was moving towards me I went in the house and came back out it was there for A few Moments and disappeared almost as if iCloud moved over it and blocked it but there’s no clouds. We have amended the time, assuming a nighttime sighting. Report was originally posted with a time of 9:37 a.m.. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138900). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-02-18 → 2018-03-07