Cylinder over Corning/Pocahontas (between), AR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving from my town of Corning, Arkansas, towards Pocahontas, Arkansas, at about between 5:30-5:45AM. I was heading towards work and just ahead of me, suddenly appeared a smoke-like pillar of light! I'm not sure how far away exactly it was, but it was probably about the width of a 4 way road. It appeared so bright that the entire countryside around it was semi-visible when before then it wasn't since it was so early in the morning and dark! I watched it for about ten seconds, then as I grabbed my phone to take a picture it vanished! Never re-appearing though I kept my eye out for it. It was really eerie! We spoke with the witness via telephone, and she sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and sincere. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #131930). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-23 → 2017-01-09