Light over Perrin, TX
Resolved to a known cause by an investigating body, with the identification on the record.
The report, as filed
I stepped out on my back porch which face is south. I looked up into the sky to the west and saw a Fuzzy bright light traveling at a higher rate of speed from west to east. At one point it shot a cone of mist or vapor out in front of it. There was no clouds in the sky and other aircraft near it, or not fuzzy, or as bright, nor traveling as fast. Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178870). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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