Cylinder over Wemme, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was sitting on Mt. Hood with my buddy when we saw this shining bright object in the sky. It was bullet-shaped, long but not wide, and it looked high up but I couldn’t tell for sure. I thought it was a plane at first, but it didn’t seem to have any wings and there was no jet trail behind it. It curved through the sky smoothly, not pushed by the wind but going pretty fast, until it shrunk into a single spherical dot shining through the blue at us. Finally it was out of sight.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #150015). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-10-25 → 2019-11-11