As reported

Disk over Bennington, VT

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

We were watching a small aircraft like a single engine plane go over our property and then saw a silent, saucer shaped craft go behind the craft that was moving south to north. The UFO moved west to east slowly antil it passed Woodford Mountain and went out of sight. No contrail or noise. I took a video of it with my phone.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #163685). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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