Changing over South Padre Island, TX
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
A bright star-like object turned into a glowing disk constantly moving in rainbow-like trajectory. It released a cloud like substance around it that becaume a size of a football field. It then turned back into 2 stars moving in parallel and disappeared SpaceX launch from Florida [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176905). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-07-20 → 2023-08-06
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