Cylinder over Donegal, PA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was driving eastbound on PA Turnpike ( I 70-76 ) at around 12:30 PM. The sky was clear blue and in the northeast sky I noticed an airplane with a very short contrail flying south. About 1000 ft. above the airplane on the same flight path I saw a bright, white, shiny cylinder shaped object flying above the airplane. The object was clearly not the same type of flying machine, much smaller but much brighter with a halo type effect surrounding it. Unfortunately, it was a very short sighting due to winding road through the mountains and since I was traveling at 75 mph on a busy interstate, I was not able to get a photo.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170127). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-06-26 → 2022-07-13