Diamond over jacksonville, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was walking outside to my car and looked up and saw this abnormally, large, shining, bright fluorescent, orange light, it shined, as if it were an active fire. It was higher than the airplanes, and the only movement it had was the activity of its lights. I could not tell whether or not it was stationary, but if it was not, it barely moved. The activity of the lights did not stop, but during the two minute duration, it started to get dimmer. Soon enough, the light dimmed all the way off, as if you just turned off a lightbulb, the light took a second to completely go away, and it was just slightly bigger than planes, and I could tell it was not a plane because the center of it was brighter than the rest, as if the it was on fire or something, but it was not a star because this object was a very fluorescent orange, a very Crayola crayon orange, and much larger than a star.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175757). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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