Cylinder over Lena, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were watching the Lena fireworks from a nearby field from a parked truck.... we saw a small red glowing cylinder moving fairly quickly coming over from a different direction of the fireworks....it was traveling perfectly straight and level....then another one and after a short while a 3rd one....they all were traveling the exact same path....and they all disappearing at the same spot over/in front of us....about 40 to 50 feet off the ground.....it was not fireworks. these were also witnessed by my neighbor and 30 people having a cookout a mile away, he stated when they first saw the first one, it was hovering. There were no lights on the object but it had a soft red glow and was about a foot long.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128342). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-07-01 → 2016-07-18