Diamond over Lago Vista, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The craft had 4 peach colored lights on each tip with a canister looking cockpit jutting from the bottom with white lights circling it. I was driving when I noticed a beam of light in the clouds in front of me, as I got closer it got lower to the ground until I drove right underneath it at which point it was approximately 200-300 yards off the ground. 30 minutes later I drove back back the location of the sighting to find nothing. It hovered in the air with complete silence
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113309). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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