Unknown over Sidney, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was walking with a couple of my friends just laughing talking and i just happened to look up. It was a beautiful night. My friends noticed me looking up. There was an object silver object big probably about 12 to fifteen feet in a V shape with lights perfectly spaced apart along the bottom of it. The color of the lights were some ive never seen before just very bright. The craft hovered for a few seconds before it shot straight up in the air and was completely out of sight for as big as it was without a sound. It was beautiful.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #124468). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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