Circle over Clay, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My son was sitting in the living room (facing east) and said he just saw something zoom across the sky. He came into my office (facing north) and said "there it is!". I went outside and filmed what appears to be a round craft tilted on the z axis, spinning what appeared to be in a clockwise rotation. There were no visible lights, ports, doors, windows. It was metallic and highly reflective. It moved in several directions, unlike if it was an object being taken by the wind. I filmed it for a minute and then it disappeared. There was no sound, no jet streams.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171456). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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