As reported

Cigar over Hood River, OR

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The report, as filed

We saw two large, long, white objects flying formation from west to east over the Columbia River Gorge. They didn’t appear to have wings - they were just very long. We are a military family and are familiar with aircraft. These objects were two large to be any aircraft we know of - especially at the height they were at. Commercial aircraft don’t fly formation. The two objects appeared to stop twice mid air. After the second stop the two objects appeared to merge then slowly moved sideways blending into the thunder clouds to the north of the river - disappearing from sight. Both myself and my passenger looked at each other and wanted to know if the other saw what just happened.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142457). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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