Light over Radford, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
There was a bright white light (a little brighter than Venus), which appeared to be very high up but moving very quickly across the sky. I t was moving SSW to NNE, and took maybe two minutes to move from one horizon to the other. It was moving in a generally straight line, but was wiggling or oscillating back and forth slightly as it flew (maybe 0.1 degrees amplitude, maybe one period per second).
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157590). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-07-10 → 2020-07-27
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