Light over NY, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking at what appeard to be a star. High above it another pulsing object that changed direction and seemed to phase in and out. I could see the star looking object with both my phone camera and my naked eye. The other pulsing moving object,I could only see through my phone camera. After the pulsing moving object was no more, another object appeared to shoot down from the sky like a commet, but larger. It crashed landed somewhere in that direction.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171086). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-09 → 2022-08-26
From the same sky