Cigar over Clarks Grove, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My sighting occured 11-20-14. I have one of those quad rotor helicoptors with a go pro camera. I live in Minnesota, next to Interstate 35, in a small community. That day I was practicing with the coptor on the edge of town. What I saw was a cylinder shaped thing. Featureless. Completly smooth. The finish on the surface was like smooth chrome. Almost mirrored in appearance. No wings. No external any thing. The way it moved. Its motion, seemed like I was watching a blimp move along. It was very slow. I saw it first directly east of my location, almost right above me, traveling north. I thought what the... At that point i took my eyes off of it to manuver the coptor in its direction. To get it on the gopro. It was very difficult to vissually relocate. But i was able watch it continue on in its northerly direction. It then just faded. It blended with its surroundings. It was an orange sunset that evening. The sun was low on the horizon. And the thing had a haze around its lower half. I was seeing orange light of the sunset reflecting off the surface of it through that haze. No noise. I do have the video, but it doesn't show up. So...
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #117411). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-11-17 → 2014-12-04