Cigar over Chariton, IA
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The report, as filed
I witnessed an event, myself, two moving lights, becoming three, moving from the west heading southeast. It was at 5:21 am 10/8/2014, I was outside my second floor apartment on the flat roof in back of the building. The event lasted 7-8 seconds. I had been awake since 4 am. I was watching the eclipse. It was dark out. The two lights were white-ish blue-ish, moving fast from my right to my left, above the rooftop of the building south of mine. I thought it was strange, so since I had my binoculars (eclipse) I put them to my eyes and what I saw was like nothing else. I first noticed there were now three lights, in between and in the back of a cigar shaped object. It was moving fast and quiet. That lasted only two seconds, then it was gone. As I lowered my binoculars it was out of sight.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #114334). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-10-05 → 2014-10-22
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