Changing over Big flats, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Went fishing with my son and looked behind us when I seen the bright object in the air and asked my son to look what it is. I pulled out my phone and it took a first pic, but it had too much light it was bright and my son took one at the same time my first one didn’t go through. My phone ended up taking two other pictures after the first one didn’t go through then the object was gone. It was long looking in the beginning before it started going up then it looks like a circular craft as it’s almost gone in the sky. I saw red and that’s about the only color I could really make out besides regular lights.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171265). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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