Unspecified over Florence, AZ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was in prison during this time and I noticed right before head count a buddy and I were standing out side of the tent and I was looking up into the sky and saw a disc shaped object. And I point it out to my friend and when he saw it too. We were amazed. Im 100% sure it was a disc shaped and it was silent. Couldn't hear not sound from it. It was moving very slow above the cloud line and and there were very few cloud in the sky. But that not the best part. What was more interesting was when it went into the cloud it never came out on the side. The cloud was not that big and you could easily see both sides of the cloud. Till this day it bugs me because I know for a fact what I saw I was never a believer about aliens until I witnessed that.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158646). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-06-28 → 2018-07-15
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