Light over Loving, NM
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I walked out the front door of my house and saw a very bright light, it was so bright, that I thought it was the moon at first. When I realized that it was moving, I noticed the moon was far off to the left side of my view. The light moved quickly all the way across the sky from right to left. It seemed to fade as it got closer to the moon. I only had time to run back into the house, grab my phone, and start recording, and was only able to catch the very end of it, as it was approaching the light of the moon. As it got closer towards the moon and clouds, the light began to fade and then dissipate into the clouds. I took video from a standing-point on the front porch of my house. The light comes into the video near the top middle (towards the left side). And by this time it was approaching the clouds above the moon. When it gets to the clouds, it disappears into them, and they look affected by whatever it was. You can see the clouds move in a strange way. It almost looked like whatever it was, turned into clouds and disappeared. It the background of the video you can hear our dog barking and a motorcycle running that was out in the garage. I didn't hear anything out of the normal.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178406). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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