Unknown over Elephant Butte, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were taking night photos of the stars with a 50mm lens on a Canon EOS Rebel T2i by laying the camera lens up and setting it to take long exposure shots. In one photo we caught a small unknown image. The stars all show up as single dots, but there is one very bright light with a tail that is in a curved, non-uniform line. We did not view with our eyes, we discovered the image after we looked at the photo the next morning.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142613). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-14 → 2018-07-31
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