Disk over Botkin, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While traveling south on interstate 75 my fiancee and I saw a very large amber glow in the distance with what seemed to be a cone shape in the center of the sphere from its location to the earth. As we got closer the glowing air around the vessel almost seemed pixelated. We snapped a couple pictures and a short video as we passed through the glow. After a minute or two of talking about what we believed had just happened my fiancee turned around to see what it looked like from where we now where and it was gone. The span of the object was huge, we originally saw it from several miles away, but yet after we went through the light it simply disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #152771). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-01-18 → 2020-02-04