Other over Urbandale, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was walking near the local mall with my friend and we were going to our favorite smoke spot when I looked in the sky and thought the sky was pretty so I took a picture so I could draw it later which isn’t uncommon since I’m an artist. Later that night after I was sober I noticed a white glowing saucer shaped object in the sky in that picture. It wasn’t a lense flare, drone, plane, bird, or helicopter and when zoomed in it looked suspiciously like one of the hundreds of other ufo pictures. I’m curious as to what this thing I accidentally caught while walking to go and smoke was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164769). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-09-17 → 2021-10-04
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