Cigar over Ripon, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object was to low to be an aircraft , to high to be a blimp and it was just there hovering. The object had no wings at all, it appeared to be whitish or silverish. My husband noticed what I had pointed out and he could not identify this object either. My son had little interest in it at all , but he did look and he also seen it. There isn’t anything in that area that would explain hat it was that we all just seen. I don’t know how long it remained motionless, as we lost sight of it by traveling. I was able to capture a brief video recording of this object and from that video I was able to screenshot the object and zoom in for a better look at what it could be. Much to our surprise, the pics did confirm what we had seen plus confirmed that the o next was not an airplane or blimp.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #162531). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-01-19 → 2020-02-05
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