Light over Ava, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My husband and I were travel North on Route 26 near the town of Ava at approximately 5:15pm. Approaching the top of a small hill directly in front of us in the sky were 5 circular horizontal lights. They dimmed and there was a shift in direction of the craft (rotated?) before lights reappeared and the craft ignited? It started sparking and traveling East in a large ball of spark leaving a tail like a comet would in its wake before disappearing after 100 ft or so.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173338). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-12-05 → 2022-12-22