Cigar over Derby, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was windy real windy and the power went out so I went out side and looked up to see how bad the lightning was and I thought I saw the moon light through an opening in the clouds. I stared at it and it freaking glided like a flash light. Just moved . So I was like ima go tell my brother. When I went there was a water leak outside the trailer. The renters left the water running and left so we fixed and I forgot to tell my brother. I snapped and went back to tell him. And sure enough I looked up and there it was. My brother took forever but it stayed there just didn't move. When he saw it he freaked out went home and it followed him first so I ran over there to tell him it's over his trailer it must have heard me freaking out coz the it started following me home I mean a giant spot light in the sky. It wasn't a helicopter cut it was in lightning clouds. I mean it moved like a flash light following me home to the car to hwy and then it did the wiredest thing it position itself like it was in an angle a flash of light and you could see it was a long cigar shape. My brother saw it blink of an on like me. I'm scared to be honest.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #168143). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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