Oval over Chagrin Falls, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I notice a big object in the sky. Thought at first it was a star but it kept getting brighter then fading repeatedly. As we were looking at that object, two smaller white orbs traveled toward the larger one at a high rate of speed. One of the orbs moved up and around the other. At the same time the main larger object got brighter then faded out. Minutes later we noticed several planes in the immediate area. I was able to capture it on my phone’s video. When you zoom in on the larger object, it appears to have a black circle in the middle. I have never seen anything in the sky behave that way and have no idea what it could have been.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170720). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-07-23 → 2022-08-09
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