Light over Ashland, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The smoke from neighboring fires finally ceased direction and I was looking to the skies to point out satellites to a friend. While my friend went inside I noticed a very bright slow moving light, I began to test if my phone camera would pick it up; it did. After filming 12 seconds, I stopped the recording and refocused on the object with my eyes. Within 5 seconds the light almost appeared to stop living then shrank in both size and light intensity before vanishing completely. I observe aircraft and satellites daily and this is unlike anything I've seen first hand.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #147995). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-07-29 → 2019-08-15
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