Other over Bowden, WV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At the Bickles Knob fire tower, near Bowden, West Virginia. Myself and two others saw a half-moon shaped ship fly directly into our line of vision for 2-3 seconds, the ufo sped up, and then completely disappeared. The object was silver and appeared to be lit at the bottom. It seemed to be around 100-200 yards in the air. We were focused on a specific spot in the sky for a few minutes, looking at a grouping of stars. The ufo appeared directly in front of where we were viewing. There was a large amount of lightning (cloud to cloud) around the area, but not specifically in the area we were, before, and after, we saw the ufo. We have corrected the date above to 2015. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #118836). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-05-03 → 2015-05-20