Circle over Lake Milton (outside of Youngstown), OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I stopped to use the pay phone to let my sister know that we were lost and going to be late with her car and then it suddenly appeared, it was just there, one second it wasn't but the next, it was! There was no seeing it come and go, almost as if it came out of an invisible black hole! so I asked my friend if she saw it (my sister got mad& assumed I was drinking) and we just watched it sit there hovering but the trees barely made a movement, it made a soothing humming sound, it was very graceful, the lights glowed one by one, all in order now that I look back it's funny that I didn't try to look in the windshield to see what was in it but that was the last thing on my mind for some reason we weren't scared it was actually relaxing and didn't pose any threat whatsoever. When we left and got back on the freeway there were semis pulled over and cars pulled over and everyone was staring up in awe! I know what I saw It was a mass sighting, police in a few different jurisdictions also reported it. The next morning my sister said "what did you say about a UFO"? Because it was on the news. I'm a horrible artist I will include a few pictures that I saw on your website that looks very similar, eerily similar!!!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177220). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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