Sphere over Briarcliff, TX
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
My fiancé and I were walking out of my parents house all together to leave for the night when we looked up and saw something strange. It looked at first like a large planet, but we quickly realized it was moving across the sky in south bound direction. It had a hazy cloud around it, even though the conditions were clear and there were no clouds in the sky. It emitted a a dome shaped aura in front of it as it began to disappear from sight. We all saw it but none of us are sure what we saw. Falcon 9 Starlink-101 (6-11) SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177820). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-08-23 → 2023-09-09
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