Circle over New York-Boulder, CO
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
I was traveling from New York to Boulder Colorado the night of April 2nd. The plane got up in the sky and I looked out the window and saw this object but I thought maybe it’s just a reflection of light and didn’t think much of it. I went to sleep and woke up an hour and half later and it was still there but moved to a better place where I could see it. I spend an hour watching it trying to figure out what it was. It was not a plane, not a star or the moon, and then it started to change color to be a red/orange. Near the end of my flight I looked down and then up again and it was gone I couldn’t locate it again. I took images and videos. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175507). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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