Cylinder over Manchester, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The bright light then started moving alarmingly fast in a west to east direction. As it went over head observed what appeared to be a cylindrical object with an extremely bright front light with 2 round orange lights on the bottom. We heard no sound. Witness indicates a date in 2013. We suspect it was a sighting on 04/27/2015, and we have amended the date above. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we cannot verify the date. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118682). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-04-24 → 2015-05-11
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