Light over Westminster, CO
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
I was biking home when I stopped to fix my jacket. I looked up and saw an unusual trail of lights in the sky. I assumed it was the iss, but it was long. A straight line of white dots. I looked more and saw an outline of an oval, looking like the side of a discus. I pulled out my phone to video it after I saw that it seemed to be rotating, the lights moving up like they were on the side of a rotating disc. As I videoed the scene, I saw the thing move higher in the sky. Then the lights started to fade and the outline disappeared as the whatever it was faded away into the night. [NUFORC annotation: Starlink - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165673). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-11-30 → 2021-12-17
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