Changing over Grand island, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Outside doing work and saw some thing shining in the sky overhead, as I observed it changed shape from something shiny and metal to something gray and then transparent. It did a number of circles and then took off and hovered for 10 seconds then flew away. Shape shifting drone or other thing. Called the lieutenant at Niagara air base in Niagara falls NY and reported it to him. He seemed quite concerned. It also had a red light on the bottom of it A beam of white light appeared to come out also.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157725). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-06-28 → 2020-07-15