Light over Rice, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was watching the stars and noticed one of the "stars" started moving slowly. After about 6" of travel (from my perspective) it disappeared. I am always looking for satellites, but this object was definitely still, then moved slowly and then vanished. I'm reminded of the scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind when they were looking up at the Big Dipper in the sky, and then it suddenly started moving towards them, and then broke up into the separate moving lights. This was much like that in appearance. Thank you.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143791). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-10-21 → 2018-11-07
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