Cylinder over Atlanta, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Two Bright Metallic Objects.
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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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-01-17 → 2014-02-03
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August 26, 2023 · 5:30 PM · DISK
Atlanta, GA
Between 4:45 and 6pm. From my balcony at vireo apt, I could see a disk shaped gray thing on one of the cell tower looking things (there are two red/white ones, and one gray one) to the SE. At first it didn’t move. Then when I looked again it seemed to of shifted to the left slightly. Both times it looked like a spacecraft but like it was attached to the cell tower so I thought it was part of it/I hadn’t noticed it before. When I looked again a little while later, it was gone! Maybe it’s nothing but it was so oddly shaped that I wanted to report it to see if anyone else saw it
July 28, 2023 · 7:30 PM · SPHERE
Atlanta, GA
I was flying my drone and it kept losing connection which I’ve never had that issue before. It kept “loading” connection and my phone screen would go dark. I was flying a dji mini 1. I kept getting a message saying aircraft interference. There were no aircraft in the area. I put my drone away and I can’t remember how long after my friend said, “shit what the hell are those lights”. I looked up. And saw 5 lights in a row and then a second later only 2. I walked to make sure I can see them longer with line of sight and trees and houses around us. The two bright lights were now black spheres that were burly to see. I know this because I see aircraft fly over all the time to the way to Fulton industrial airport. I couldn’t focus my eyes on the two objects but could focus my eyes on the commercial airline that was probably 30,000 feet up. These objects were close enough to be able to see the detail if they were not blurry. There was no wings no rotor no exhaust just two black objects flying next to one another. I walked down the road to make sure I could see them in more of clearing and they were gone.
May 28, 2023 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Atlanta, GA
May 28, 2023 Atlanta-Hartsfield (ATL) Sighting Report Narrative of Events During Takeoff 2215 Hours: After a 15 minute gate hold, the aircraft, a Boeing 767-300ER with 226 souls and 2 laps on board, is pushed back from the terminal. Ground Control clears the aircraft to the active taxiway. 2245 Hours: Idle fourth in line, after 30 minutes aircraft cleared to taxi onto RWY 26 Left where we are instructed to hold. ATL Tower reports clear skies, visibility 10 miles or better, altimeter 29.92, winds calm. 2248 Hours: Cleared for takeoff, ATL Tower instructs us to climb heading 275 degrees to intercept course 288 degrees to Snufy. Flight course put us just west of East Point and south of state route 166, where we expect to be cleared to 15,000 feet, and from there to flight level 240 (24,000 feet). 2252 Hours: Outbound from ATL, Departure clears us to flight level 240. First Quarter Moon visible in the clear night sky, having risen high on the eastern horizon at sunset. 2300 Hours: Climbing through 15,000 feet, First Officer points over the instrument panel towards a sizable burst of white light, 12 o’clock off the aircraft nose, approximately 5 miles distant. 2301 Hours: My initial impression is that the burst represents some kind of missile denotation, and, as a result, I throttle the engines back so as not to ingest possible debris from the blast. 2302 Hours: First Officer reports the sighting to ATL Departure and requests a vector change further to the west. A mild buffet to the aircraft, accompanied by an audible drop in engine RPM. Cabin lights flicker for a moment or two, although the annunciator panel remains illuminated. 2303 Hours: Departure vectors us further west, which puts us outside the burst radius, and reports commercial traffic descending inbound as we resume our climb to flight level 240. Traffic, an Airbus heading for ATL, comes up on VHF Guard Frequency. 2310 Hours: After speculation by both flight crews as to the origin of the burst, resembling a nebulous ball of light, First Officer and myself concurred over the VHF frequency that the object appeared stationary, of significant size, perhaps 700 feet in diameter, and remained to the east, having fallen behind our present position as we continued to climb. It was, as I pointed out, “still out there," and appeared as bright as the moon, “...sort of a fuzzy silver ball.” 2315 Hours: Having been cleared to flight level 360, our cruising altitude, we continued to vector toward the northwest, en route to Chicago. It should be noted that ATL Departure showed no additional traffic, other than the inbound Airbus, and the remainder of the flight passed without incident
February 27, 2023 · 7:54 PM · CYLINDER
Atlanta, GA
Preface: I am an Airline Pilot with 30 years of flying experience. I currently fly for a Pt. 121 major airline. At approx 0052Z on February I observed unexplained phenomenon at my 2 o'clock at what appeared to be near my altitude or above. I am not sure of the distance. At first I thought it to be a reflection in my windscreen, but after moving my head around and point of view, the object stayed steady. The object appeared rectangular or oblong and milky white. My first officer returned from the forward lav and observed the object moving briskly southbound. After I asked him "what is that", the object moved at rapid,steady speed southbound and disappeared. I snapped a picture to verify the object at 0054. I regret not taking a video, but was taken and confused by what I was seeing. A few minutes later, ATL center asked if anyone had seen the light or object because there was a lot of chatter on guard frequency (121.5). I informed them I had and got a phone number to an ATL controller and shared the picture later after the flight. Another Frontier flight captained by a colleague also witnessed the UAP, along with numerous other aircraft on guard. I have never witnessed anything like it in almost 30 years of flying. The object appeared to be over Atlanta and we were at FL370. There were many other flight crews that witnessed the UAP. I had a text dialogue after the flight with an 18 year air traffic controller. He said his supervisor was filling out UAP paperwork and that he had never heard or seen anything like this. I have filed a NASA aviation report as well.
September 11, 2022 · 8:05 PM · OTHER
Atlanta, GA
Red disc shape object next to white circle orb
January 1, 2022 · 12:00 AM · LIGHT
Atlanta, GA
We went outside to see fireworks for the midnight time as it was new years 2022. Exactly at midnight (a couple seconds after maybe), 2 very bright equal in size/symmetrical red light objects (circular) came from the southern (downtown Atlanta) horizon and slowly rose above and over the sky and behind my house. The objects were then seen again after passing behind the house and at which point started accelerating very fast in the same direction as it had been traveling. Altitude always stayed steady throughout the process. Shortly after this, another one was spotted - again same direction, etc identical to the prior objects (even in the direction and speed etc and light intensity) over the southern horizon. This object is the one that is video taped as noted in the evidence. However, unlike the first 2 objects (could be seen after going behind the house), this 3rd one "disappeared" after going behind the house.