Cylinder over Minneola, KS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Watched a bright ball slowly move across the sky with a couple random “sprints”. It would randomly alternate color from a bright white to a deep red. There was no pattern in the time each color was held or the colors it changed too. I had gone out side to smoke while I talked to a buddy on the phone, I noticed an abnormally bright “star” on the left side of a radio tower. I chalked it up to nothing, after about 10 minutes I looked up and noticed it had moved to the right side of the pole and was no pulsing with different colors. As I watched it returned to a pale yellow. I continued to watch as it would occasionally “sprint” a short distance. This went on till my cousin showed up about 30 minutes into the experience. We watched till his shift ended (county sheriff) and he returned home. I went back inside as it was a bit chilly.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #136818). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-10-15 → 2017-11-01