As reported

Unknown over Walton, KY

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

At first I thought it was a plane, but it was moving too fast for a plane. I confirmed this 5 minutes later when I actually saw a plane, with contrails. This particular object had no contrails, like most of the planes I see at that altitude. Anyway, it caught a glint of the sun and I could tell it wasn't a bird. It continued to move from SE to NW when it made an "S" move and then a figure 8. I watched it until I couldn't see it anymore. It LOOKED like a plane, but it was faster than a plane and did not move like a plane.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113072). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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