Light over Indian Lake, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
8:16 pm Saturday night, September 16, 2023 - UFO spotting in Indian Lake, NY - an extra bright light moving vertical relatively fast (at first thought it was a satellite), but then started going back and forth horizontal and then began to fade and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178331). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-09-13 → 2023-09-30
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