Cigar over Portage des Sioux, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was passing over the train tacks just outside my town when I saw what I figured to be a plane fly pretty fast and low overhead. It had no wings, it had what looked like red arrows lighting up along the bottom of the craft, they’d light from the back and move towards the front and continue in this pattern. It was shaped like a flat cigar with both the front and back being rounded the same. It came from the East and kept going west. It made no noise as it moved across the sky. It continued until it disappeared behind the tree line. I’ve never seen anything like it. Seemed like it was the size of seve ral plane cabins side by side. It was the same color as the night sky like a dark blueish black. I didn’t h
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #154176). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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