Circle over Carlotta, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I walked out to the back porch to dance to the moon like I do every night. As I looked up at the almost full moon, I noticed to the right a cloud which had a circular craft with three red lights around it (which didn't look like an airplane) heading to the left from the cloud towards the moons direction, then the lights disappeared and I saw this silhouette of the craft glideing towards the moon. Just before it was supposed to cross in front of the moon, it vanished in front of my eyes. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #144540). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-12 → 2018-07-29
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