Disk over Folsom, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Hi Peter, I'm not sure what to do with this and although I'm a member of MUFON, you've always been my "go to" guy. My husband and I were coming down hi-way 50 on 6-18-17 returning home to Lincoln, from Tahoe and I had my camera with me. I like to take shots of cloud formations and we had some clouds rolling through with all the pretty colors. Not sure what time it was but I'm guessing towards sunset and I believe we were around the Prairie City Rd. exit. I snapped some pix and decided to look at them later. The weather was beautiful that day. A few clouds but no rain in Tahoe or in the valley. At some point after that I checked them out and they were in my "gallery". All the pix are less than 1" square and I didn't look closely at any of them. Two weeks ago, I was going through the gallery pix, deciding which ones to keep and I came across this one. I did not see this object or whatever it is at the time I took it. I do remember when I took it because it was my late mother's birthday and if I had seen it at the time, I would have showed it to my husband. I don't know if you remember, but I emailed you or maybe wrote an account of possibly taking a photo of a ufo, it was pink/purple colored football shaped object and I immediately showed my husband and got all excited about it. I'm not very good at the tech stuff and couldn't figure out how to send you the picture. Turns out it was something on the window as the next time we went somewhere, I wanted to double check it and the same thing happened so I discarded it. I also sent in the account dating back to 1960 with my twin brother's experience. I've taken a picture of the picture on my phone, I'm determined if nothing, and that's how I'm able to send it now. My phone is a Samsung 4G LTE and my camera is a Canon ELPH 350 HS Powershot. Oh, and my husband is a huge skeptic and when he saw this, he was amazed and told me I needed to send it to someone. Of course, my first thought was you. I know you are a busy man but when you get the chance could you please take a look and get back to me with any thoughts. I would really appreciate it. Thanks!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143989). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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