Changing over Salt Lake City, UT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My friend and I were just leaving my house, when I felt compelled to look up. When I did I instantly saw two black shapes in the sky above my house. One was much larger than the other. When we first saw them they were stationary but seemed to have possibly been one craft at some point. We watched for a moment trying to make sure that it wasn’t something more recognizable. But it wasn’t moving and they were way too close together to have been human craft. As soon as we decided it wasn’t anything it should have been, I decided to go back inside to get binoculars and my camera. In the small amount of time I took to get the camera they had moved a lot more. My friend who stayed outside to keep his eye on them said it almost seemed like they started moving faster after we began to take notice of them. Once I got outside I was trying to get my camera setup and gave the binoculars to my friend who instantly got the best look of it and said, “Oh my God!” aloud as he was looking at it. I snapped two photos and got some shaky, zoomed in footage of them. My friend described the hull of the craft to be almost like a liquid state that was consistently transforming as it was moving up. He said it made edged shapes with points that shifted and changed. My first thought was Ferro Fluid, but he said that it was only similar to that. The crafts were black and did not reflect much light at all. When we first saw them they were lower to the ground and the large one was shaped more triangular while the smaller one was more of a sphere. They both eventually moved straight up and disappeared. The photos I took look just like black dots, but when I zoom in it reveals the spiky shapes that are coming off of it. I have always believed in the existence of Extraterrestrials anyway, but never had a definitively weird enough experience to justify their existence. But this has me feeling the contrary. We have changed the time, to reflect a nighttime sighting. We have no way of contacting the witness, as he/she elects to remain totally anonymous, and provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118564). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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