Other over Colonie NY ... a few miles west of Albany, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bar looked like a neon night, about 3 inches long from our standpoint, and straight across, moving slowly, easterly along the sky..... that would make it several hundred feet long. It didn't appear to be moving upward or downward, just level. After it came to our attention, about 30 seconds later, it faded out slowly. My neighbor is 65 and an engineer. I'm 74. We are not easily impressed, but we see no way this was a jet stream, an aircraft, or anything else our imagination can fathom. There was no noise. We would like to know if anyone else saw this thing NUFORC: Starlink
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171234). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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