Light over Holyoke, MA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My boyfriend was looking out our apartment window which shows a scenic view of the Connecticut River, facing South Hadley. He asked me to come look out the window at what at first, looked like a star. We noticed it kept getting darker and then very bright in an instant, and it would do this slowly; fade and come back. It wasnt normal looking to me whatsoever. We also saw an aircraft (plane) within the vicinity of this object. The object of light would also occasionally look like arms of some sort (I can describe the arms as looking like Doc Oc's mechanical arms in Spiderman) would appear surrounding the oval light. This would happen when the light would brighten up with extreme brightness. Eventually, it disappeared. The plane did too.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157352). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-07-02 → 2020-07-19
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