Light over Lake Sumter Landing, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We began to ask everyone what they thought it was and people just gathered off as the launch because they had heard there was a launch that night. Unbeknownst to them the launch hadn't even started.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164668). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-09-12 → 2021-09-29