Oval over El paso, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It had 4 alternating flashing bright white lights. Then it stopped moving and just hovered way, way, way up in the clear blue sky. Then a passenger jet came flying right up under it. Then while I was talking to 911 operator reporting it I looked in the sky and it was gone. Vanished into thin air. It just totally vanished. It came into the sky from nowhere then it just totally vanished!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173272). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-11-28 → 2022-12-15
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