Changing over Ackerman, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was standing in my yard, and saw a grayish black, oval object in the sky. I thought it was an airplane at first, but there was no sound, and it just completely stopped in mid-air for about a minute, and hovered. It then turned in the opposite direction that it was flying (very quickly) and then turned again. After a couple minutes of watching, it then started dropping straight down, changing form into a tiny circle as it dropped into the tree line. Never saw it again.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146773). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-06-08 → 2019-06-25
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