Cigar over Wappingers falls, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was long in length. 5 big bright white/metallic balls/spheres joined all together kind of like a football field stadium light. It was really far away and high in sky. It was not an airplane and it wasn’t moving. Very large object in person but picture shows it very small and how far away it is. I zoomed in to get the close up picture. It was located right near a small airport but this was not an airplane.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171634). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-04 → 2022-09-21