Changing over Van Etten, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
First a light with a perfect ring around it moving across the sky the ring was almost cloud like even though no other clouds were visible that night. As it moved the ring morphed into a sphere around the light and at one point a smaller light came out of it and flew around it and went back into it. And then it moved along out of site. It was witness by myself and my boyfriend, and four other friends. We all know what we're witnessing was not normal, not a drone,, not an aircraft of any kind, not a weather balloon and definitely not a satellite including starlink.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171676). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-06-13 → 2022-06-30