Rectangle over Hancock, NH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 3:15 a.m. I was looking out our glass sliding door to the east when a flash of light occurred for less than a second. An object seemed to come from the north, lower than the moon, and then disintegrate before reaching the ground, like a piece of mylar burning up. It was silver with possible rows of rivets holding angular sheets of metal together. It sounded like a ‘whoosh” as it disintegrated. It seemed to disappear just before reaching the ground.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158553). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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