Oval over Irving, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
As I was waiting for my friend to unlock the car door in a parking lot I was looking up at the sky and saw a cylinder almost like a big bullet shaped object fly really fast across the sky it was in a orb of a very bright blue light no wings or tail but there was a streak of light behind the object almost like a shooting star but definitely was not a shooting star it flew straight across and then swooped down and disappeared both my friend and I witnessed it
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164949). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-09-28 → 2021-10-15