Cigar over Grantwood village, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I thought it was a plane due to alot passing but upon further watching, it came from the east and had what looked like short clouds behind it, then it when south as in south towards like it was headed to the land. It went in a cloud for a minute. Then it preceded to go down more into another cloud and it disappeared. It was white, long shaped, the front and and were round and when I say long shape it wasn't flying like a plane, literally the long ends where up and down facing sky and earth not straight away as a plane does.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142310). 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