Unknown over Iuka, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Jan 15th at 6:30 pm in the northeast corner of MS. Walking back out to my vehicle to unload groceries, my attention was pulled upward by what looked like a star that quickly became the brightest thing in the sky. This intense light suddenly split into two lights that were traveling in opposite directions. Not exactly but almost dead east to west. The light traveling east sped up more than the west traveling light. After a few moments the west traveling light slowed then moved in many different directions then stopped. The east traveling light never changed directions but dimmed until it’s light went out for maybe a second after going dark you could see the objects outline. It then disappeared leaving the west moving light to seem to move for a bit then stop then move a bit then stop after 15 seconds of random movement it stopped in the sky to appear as another star. I have taken many night photos of the stars from my iPhone. I have never had an issue before but on this occasion my iPhone would not focus at all. The whole screen went blurry and when I tapped on the object to focus on it acted like it couldn’t find an object to focus on.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173950). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-12 → 2023-01-29
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