Circle over Wofford Heights, CA
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
The pictures will show a strange object in my driveway? One of the pictures shows a dock at the top of the screen. It disappears, and the screen goes black for a second or two then you see the moon come into focus in the circular orbit, spinning at high speed. Some of the pictures I had taken may have been a reflection from my iPhone, but these definitely were not. [NUFORC annotation: Camera Anomaly - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177949). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-08-27 → 2023-09-13
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