Cigar over Shenandoah, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was recording my neighbors fireworks and a green light cut across the sky, I checked the recording and the object appeared out of thin air glowing green then shot though the clouds into the sky moving some clouds in the process. It appears and is gone in one 10th of a second when I watched it frame by frame on the recording. [NUFORC annotation: Fireworks - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176562). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-06-28 → 2023-07-15