Light over Curtin, WV
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The report, as filed
We pulled into the wide spot and I looked up and saw a huge bright bluish white light sitting just behind the mountaintop. I thought it was yhe moon and voiced my opinion. My husband told me to take a good look again. By this time our friend pulled over too. We all sat and watched as the light changed shapes several times along with colors. It reminded us of fire on a mountain except it moved in odd patterns, changed colors from white to bluish whiite to pink to yellow. It changed size from huge to small and back again. Its shape was a ball of light, a mushroom shape, and even appeared to separate into 2 and back into 1. This went on for over a half hour. I took video, as best I could, considering it was on my cheap cell phone. We finally left. As we were heading back into town, we kept looking behind us. We didn't see it any more. The 3 of us agreed that it had to be a UFO. It was unlike anything we'd ever seen before.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159047). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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