Light over Apple valley, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
About 6 or 7 military jets flew over at high altitude about 10 minutes before this event. While out herping my family and I witnessed a bright light come from the east over a nearby hill. It was making impossible maneuvers/movements in a diamond shape. It would move in right, down, left, right, down, left, up and stop, come closer to us and do the same thing for about 4-5 minutes. The closer it got, the more we became uncomfortable. We jumped in our vehicle and drove west to leave the area. We continued to watch it behind us as we drove, it climbed and disappeared into the south eastern sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170947). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-04 → 2022-08-21
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