Disk over Athens, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I had just made it to the top of the driveway on my way home from work this morning. I seen something odd flying and then it went behind a line of trees so I drove down my driveway as quick as I could, put my car in park and started recording. It was in a saucer shape and it had red blue lights that later turned to green orange. I’m bad with measurements but it really wasn’t too far higher than the tree line and the place where it went out of sight was at the top of a steep hill. I couldn’t tell if it landed but it had to have been within feet from the trees if it didn’t land. No sort of regular aircraft flies like this.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175177). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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