Circle over Flight from Charlotte to Wilmington NC, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While filming the lights on a night time flight I noticed my phone was picking up flashing not visible to the eye (IR) three flashes that disappeared and reappeared then I managed to get a photo of a small object in the clouds. the lights were not from a plane I thought maybe IR strobes on satellites but then I saw a round disc-ish shaped object in the cloud that had the same purple light around it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171501). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-27 → 2022-09-13