Cylinder over Stanford, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On Thursday, October 2, 2014, at 4:53pm, Pacific Daylight Time, I snapped the photo above of Stanford University's Hoover Tower from within the Stanford Quad. I was unaware of anything unusual at the time, and was not aware of the strange object which appears in the photo between the two left-most trees. I first saw both the photo as a whole, and the strange object in the photo, when I offloaded the photos from my camera onto my home computer on Saturday, October 4, 2014. The camera which took the photo is an Olympus Model VR-320, "HD 12.5x Super Wide, 14 Megapixel", although I had it set on a relatively low resolution, so as to save space and be able to snap more photos during my trip to California. Bird with wings folded. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114252). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-09-29 → 2014-10-16
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