Circle over Glendale, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was making a bottle for my baby this morning I saw something going somewhat fast and blinking at first I thought it was an airplane from the blinking but then it stopped mid air, and starting going backwards then up higher in the sky. I thought to myself planes don’t fly backwards, so spooky!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166715). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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