Cylinder over Hampshire, IL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I thought it was a shooting star, but it was much closer and larger and flew across the sky over the corn and bean fields for 10 seconds, stopped and turned directions and exited into a seam in the âether. I saw the craft, it changed shapes as it faced away from me. Freaky! It all happened so quickly.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142160). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-05 → 2018-07-22
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