Cigar over Placida, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Six adults in our fifties, three men, three women, all saw a glowing orange cigar shaped object moving steadily in a straight line, parallel to the ground, from south to north. We were standing on my west facing, second story level lanai. It was level with us, around 100 yards away, 10 to 20 feet long and 5 to 10 feet tall/wide. It was totally silent, and suddenly blinked out/disappeared as it was approaching the north edge of our sight line.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132158). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-12-29 → 2017-01-15