Oval over Elida, OH
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Outside looking at the sky, with a naked eye the object originally appeared circular then changed form to what appeared tic tac shaped (oblong) and then I started recording what was seen. A photo my daughter snapped on her phone, while I was videoing. In her picture, when zoomed in on, it appeared triangular. An additional object was then seen in our sky’s path but distant from the 1st object and they were not close enough to one another to include both in a shot together. When I tried to take another video of the 2nd object, they both seemed to have disappeared. (2 video clips available. Only one was appropriate size to submit)
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176451). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-06-22 → 2023-07-09