Circle over Naches Peak Loop Trail, WA
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My main intention was to take a picture of the sun and the contrails of a jet. As you will see in the three images I'm submitting, there appears to be a circular object (oreo like) at the very top edge of the first image, and diagonally below it you will also see a tiny metallic funnel-like object that has an elbow end at the bottom. In the second image, the oreo-like object has now moved past the contrail, and the funnel-like object is no longer in view. The trajectory of the oreo-like object continued in the third image before disappearing entirely from my view. I've taken a total of 42 pictures, but they only appear in these three. I shot all my pictures in burst mode but I'm not sure if the attached images were taken in a single burst. However Date and time for all three images are the same: 10:52:16 AM September 2, 2020. What you see is what my camera captured. I'm not sure if what I'm seeing is a drone and I'm hoping you could help me identify them. I took the said pictures while hiking the Naches Peak Loop trail near Mt. Rainier in Washington with my wife. Thank you.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159142). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-08-30 → 2020-09-16