Light over ranchos de taos, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A Light that was shining brighter than all the other stars above the foothills to the east, (southeast?) caught my attention. I point it out to my friend and we observe that it not only is more bright it also is shining differently than surrounding stars. We see that it is shining different colors, blue, red, green, neon-purple, white, a brilliant patchy flickering of colors. At first, it appears to be staying still, but then we see that it is moving slowly, slowly upwards. As it moves up it gets smaller and smaller until it can no longer be seen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #161079). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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