Cigar over Bessemer City, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I walked out on my deck on a clear sunny afternoon,I looded up at the sky to see if they had been spraying chemtrails.There was no chem
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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What would the paper say?
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2001-12-21 → 2002-01-07
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