Light over Weidman, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was travelling westbound on Weidman road when looking into the sky in a southwest direction,I saw what appeared to be a round very bright light that resembled the sun reflecting off a mirror in the sky at a long distance away. It appeared to be moving horizontally in a southerly direction and after about a minute it started leaving a short vapor trail like a jet might leave, but the vapor trail never got any longer and after about 2-3 more minutes the object and vapor trail just vanished with no evidence that they were there at all. The sky was clear and there were no clouds at all that it could have went behind.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #160905). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-11-28 → 2020-12-15
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