Cylinder over Rotorua (New Zealand) · New Zealand
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Object was moving very fast through the cloud, I watched it to see it come out the other side of the cloud but it didn't, then I saw it again at the same place in the cloud where I originally saw the first one, again watching it, when it reached the end of the cloud, it disappeared. It was long, a cylinder shape but moved so fast, I didn't have my phone on me at the time to take pictures.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135646). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: New Zealand Defence Force · records window 2017-08-08 → 2017-08-25
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