Disk over Groom Creek wilderness area, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On 05/31/2015, I was hiking in the Groom Creek area of Northern Arizona with two of my friends. We had reached the Groom Creek fire lookout and had stopped for lunch. While there, I was taking photographs with my Nikon Coolpix AW100 camera. Once I got home, I downloaded my efforts and discovered an unknown object in the upper right hand corner of one of the images. I was unaware of this object at the time I took the photograph. The orientation of the photograph is due north. There was no recognizable sound associated with this object. It could simply be a weather balloon or a mylar-type party balloon, although its configuration leads me to think otherwise. There is no accurate way for me to determine the distance I was from this object and therefore no way to determine its true size.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122430). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-05-28 → 2015-06-14