Cigar over Malibu, CA
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The report, as filed
This is a video I took in Malibu, CA at 6:13pm on Latigo beach. I was looking south, toward LAX. Planes are in the area very often but this stuck out because it looked very different. The object never showed any outlandish movement which made me think it's something like a satellite, but I read that satellites often flicker which I didn’t see at all. I kept zooming in and out hoping the video would show the high speed that this object was traveling. Toward the end a plane passes by and I kept them both in frame to compare speeds. While they seemed to be moving at a similar rate of speed, the object was at a substantially higher elevation well above all the clouds making me believe it is traveling extremely fast. I didn't think it was a plane because I couldn't see wings or anything dark. It was just a white perfectly cigar shaped object cruising by and never flickered. It never tilted or anything mid flight and I also never saw it disappear before my eyes, it just kept going until it was out of view. [NUFORC annotation: Aircraft - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178301). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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