Oval over May, ID
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving with my wife on our way to hunt some elk on the morning of October 3rd, 2021, just outside May Idaho in the Challis national forest. At 5:10 pm (sic. a.m.) I noticed a large flying object that was visible through the windshield of my truck. I grabbed my wife's arm and told her to look up in the sky. I stopped the truck so we could watch the flying object. It was an unbelievable sight. It had a greenish color an looked like it was made up of metal. The Oval object was glowing in the sky. There were trails of lights that trailed the object and these light trails appeared to have fire sparks in them. The object was heading east and moving very fast. It left our view after 8-10 seconds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164824). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-09-30 → 2021-10-17
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