Other over Barnesville, MN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I recently saw a video on the internet about the black jellyfish ufos and I realized I may have seen one too. It was a hot cloudless day and I was working in the yard when I noticed a dark streak moving horizontally across the sky. I was alarmed because I thought maybe it was an airplane that was on fire and leaving a smoke trail. I watched it for a couple minutes until the trees blocked my line of sight. It was very far away and I could not make out anything but a black streak moving very slowly. I noticed it was retaining the same length as it moved horizontally across the sky, if it was smoke it would leave some sort of trail and if it was a plane on fire it would probably be falling down from the sky. Many airplanes fly over our property on their path to the fargo airport so I am used to seeing and hearing airplanes, this was no airplane and there was no sound. I told my husband and we listened to the local news to see if it was a plane crash, but there was nothing reported.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175552). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-15 → 2018-08-01
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