Flash over Aylett, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
sitting on my front porch and looked up, thought it was a plane but it kept flashing super bright every minute or so across the sky in a different place -vertical line
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157645). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-07-11 → 2020-07-28
From the same sky