Oval over River Ridge, LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was on my porch getting some video of lightning from an approaching severe thunderstorm. I honestly didn’t notice it fly by at the time because I was looking away from the direction I was filming. My house faces roughly ESE and whatever this was traveled in that general direction from the WNW. Aside from some faint thunder, I don’t recall any strange noise at the time. Given the fact that it’s duration was about 1 second on the video and it’s distance traveled in the video is maybe 1/4 mile, I estimate it was traveling at 800-900 mph.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159293). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-22 → 2020-09-08
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