Light over Monticello, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was motivated to report this incident after reading about the upcoming Pentagon report. I camped in Canyonlands National Park on October 20 and while watching the stars saw a single light in the distance that looked like a plane or star and appeared to descend and/or move further into the distance, before turning sharply in a smooth movement at a very high speed. It moved way too suddenly to be a conventional airplane. The light from it slowly faded as it headed in new direction.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #162940). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-10-17 → 2020-11-03
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