Disk over Salem, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While outside on our deck, looked up in sky saw something above our residence, then fly off quickly, brushed it off as shooting star. My wife was then called out to the deck with our son to look at the stars. The sky was clear to see the stars. My wife then spotted an orangish yellow row of lights near the tree line, as she pointed it out to me it I grabbed my phone and proceeded to record. At this time the lights colors changed to a white light that was in rotation around the craft. The craft began to fly higher within the sky which then the lights started dimming. Assuming the craft may have seen the jets. We then saw the two jets fly over our house, side by side, right after the craft lights disappeared. The jets then circled the area where the craft lights were last seen. As I shut my camera off, I saw a quick flash of light below the jets, then we went inside because my wife and I felt like something was not right. We initially thought it may have been a rocket and the orangish color was the rooster tail of it until it changed to white.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171287). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-16 → 2022-09-02
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