Light over Tom Bean, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Late in the morning, there was a large cast of clouds rippling across the sky covering the face of the moon and sky blocking out stars. Close to the halo produced by the moon a ball light mimicking a star moved beneath the clouds and hovered for a minimal amount of seconds as if scouting, and then moved back above the clouds out of sight. As if it was caught in the sky and needed to cloak in the cover of the clouds. This was not a star for it broke the plane created by the clouds and appeared beneath the blanket of clouds and went back into above the casting of clouds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159057). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-28 → 2020-09-14
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