Sphere over Newark, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We watched a dark ball shaped craft with a single steady orange/red light on front approach us while boating on the Erie Canal in Newark, NY. I shined a bright flashlight at it and it turned back the way it came. No noise, no wings, no anti collision lights. It flew about 1000 feet in the air. It maintained the same speed and height for the duration we could see it. It flew as close as a quarter mile from us before turning back.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #147454). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-07-03 → 2019-07-20