As reported

Light over Louisburg, KS

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The report, as filed

My buddy and I were driving home from band practice. A few nights before we had noticed a strange flashing light in the sky close to where we were so we dove to the same spot. When I looked in to the sky there it was again. A white and red flashing ball of light. The lights pulsed on and off rapidly and very bright. The lights were hovering in place. I stopped the car to observe them and it started to slowly glide away towards us. I turned the car around and began to follow it. It picked up speed and started to rise in altitude. As we drove behind it it rapidly flew away. The first night we saw it there were jets chasing it. Two jets flew at it in a triangle pattern. One flew away and one followed the lights. The light moved fast and did what I would call warped away. A bright light flashed from nowhere near the jet. The jet flew up and into the clouds as to escape I assumed. It was all very strange but me and my buddy saw this happen.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143660). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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September 3, 2023 · 12:36 PM · CIGAR

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I spotted the first object flying very straight and fast. I tried to get my co worker to see it but she did not spot it. It vanished from my sight and I was not able to get a photo. She went inside and I sat back down and looked back at the sky. I saw another object in the same spot flying in the same direction. I quickly snapped some pictures of the sky with my phone. The objects both looked the same. They were white looking in the sky. They made no sound I could hear and it was very quiet where I was. They did not appear to have wings. There was no sign of exhaust behind them. They were tic tac shaped and looked longer when I was looking at them in the sky than they do in the photos. They moved as fast as a jet plane and flew very straight and smooth. They both seemed to vanish around the same spot. There were no clouds in the sky.

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