Light over MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looking at the western night sky about an hour after sunset, I noticed an apparent meteorite or shooting star, very bright and leaving a long trail, traveling due west towards the horizon. Immediately after disappearing, from the exact point the object burnt out, a light appeared, very slowly flashing from extremely bright to completely invisible (I’d say a period of every four seconds or so, it was hard to follow across the sky because it wasn’t flashing rapidly) and after tracking it for a minute, I realized it was more or less going back in the same direction it had entered from (i.e. traveling due east). I watched it until it disappeared behind the trees in the east. It kind of looked like a satellite, but I’ve never seen a satellite that brightened and dimmed periodically, and I checked all satellite and flight trackers and nothing showed up in the area.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178599). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-09-29 → 2023-10-16
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