Disk over Apopka, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Object was due East of me visible just over my neighbor's roof line. Object looked stationary for a while. It then slowly went away to the East. No sign of heat or vapor trail. Was not a plane, helicopter or launch from Kennedy. No signal towers in this direction either. Photo taken with a 18-400mm lens at full zoom. Photo has not been cropped or altered.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148172). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-07-31 → 2019-08-17
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