Oval over West Chester, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were traveling south on I-75 near the Tylersville Road exit in West Chester, Ohio at 8:58 pm on Monday, October 21, 2019. Up ahead in the distance, and to the east of I-75, we saw a bright, round light. It was not flashing, and it was not moving. It was too big and too bright to be a star or planet, and since it wasn’t moving, we figured it wasn’t an airplane either. The nighttime sky had heavy clouds, but it was not raining. The light lasted about 90 seconds, and then it disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150133). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-10-18 → 2019-11-04
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