Light over mason city clear lake area, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
One night I returned home to watch the evening news and they were announcing a ufo had been seen traveling over the town from south to north and going down in a quarry. Around the same time-and I have the news clipping, a slow moving light was being watched as it receded over the airport by several witnesses when they got of their cars to look. I have the news clipping. One was a cop, another was a friend of mine. More recently I decided to get out my telescope-not a cheap one. I pointed it straight up and there were 6 or so large orbs moving south to north single file. I must say at satellite speed. This was before Starlink. Just looked very odd to me.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178475). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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