Cylinder over Evansdale, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My 7 year old daughter saw it behind me and said, Dad what's that? She was facing east, I was facing west. I thought it was something near the ground and looked around and she said, no in the sky, I saw it said said Holy s***, got my phone out and snapped the first pic over the garage, then ran to the back yard where it's dark and by some miracle got the 2nd pic and my phone must taken it in night mode or something automatically. I also have an 8 second video of me talking/thinking I didn't get the shot, but when I crank up the brightness on my phone to max, I can see it, for most of the video.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #167572). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-04-18 → 2022-05-05
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