Circle over Lancaster CA, CA
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The report, as filed
I was laying on the hood of my car, and was looking up at the sky and was thinking about how there could be more out there and in a sense asked myself I need a sign to believe it. I saw an orb in the sky very high up moving very slowly with no trajectory it seemed. Would slowly change direction and it disappeared. After that I saw that same orb or ball fly across the sky westbound at blitzing speed with absolutely no sound. I knew it wasn't a shooting star because I saw one earlier that night and it had a trail of light behind it. This in fact did not. It happened the moment I thought about life being outside of us. I know it sounds crazy but I think it's tied in to what I was thinking. The moment it happened I instantly knew like something or someone told me exactly what that was. This was in Lancaster where Lockheed Martin Northrop Grumman and other facilities are in that town in other military installations within a 30 mi radius. It's no coincidence.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176794). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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