Light over Turners Falls, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A light in sky, increasing and decreasing in intensity and size, it would virtually fade to nothing be completely, then reappear as fas as blink of an eye... Meanwhile, every 5-15 minutes coming from some ware was an unsettling noise that sounded like a huge forge press, or a weird thunder with rolling beginning sudden explosion of sound with immediate falloff, no sustain at all, Very very Erie sound for that hr of am.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #145286). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-03-18 → 2019-04-04
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