Other over Charlotte (Highland Creek), NC

The report, as filed

After picking up my kids, I parked the car in the parking lot to get a better look at the planes. This was about 3:12 p.m. The "plane" closest to us looked to be right overhead, and looked white or metallic and very bright. It was spraying a chemtrail and then it ran out of spray and continued flying in a straight line heading back into the blue sky over the school. I thought it looked more like a TUBE than a plane. It also was low enough that I would have expected to hear an engine noise, but it was silent. I looked away for just a few moments to get my camera phone from the car. My 14-year-old daughter, in the meantime, had her phone camera and was snapping shots. When I looked back up at the sky, the "plane" had completely disappeared and was nowhere to be seen in the expanse of the blue sky. It just vanished. With 3 kids in the car, I started to drive home, and on our way, saw several other "planes" in the sky--I counted about 6 of them in the distance, in close proximity to each other, all spraying straight chemtrails. I pulled over to the side of the road to observe them and pointed them out to the kids. I asked my daughter to get shots of the many planes, but she was unable to capture the shot with all of the planes, but she did get the chemtrails in criss-cross patterns. With the kids in the car, and very astonished, I decided to drive around the corner block and return to the point where I could view the planes again. It took us no more than 2 minutes to drive around the block to the same spot. By then, every single plane had completely vanished, just like the other one. This was simply not possible. We caught the photos and now see that the vehicle closest to us did not look like a plane, but a SHINY, METALLIC, TUBE WITH OVAL SEGMENTS IN AN ANT-LIKE SHAPE and there seems to be some kind of black tubing wrapped around the side.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #138561). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.