Cylinder over Beaver Island, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Five of us, ages 20 - 79 were sitting around a campfire. Weather was clear and no wind, about 70 degrees. Sun still fairly high. There was a medium loud, EXTREMELY FAST huge whoosh from west to east over us. We experienced/felt a sensation (energy/air?).. At first, we just looked at each other in shocked disbelief, then out loud to each other "did you hear that?". Our mixed breed dog immediately ran to the east then back to us very fast with all hair on her back and neck standing on end, She was obviously freaked out. Twenty-year-old Ethan happened to be already looking up at that moment and saw two objects flying side by side, shinny metallic, about 2-3 feet wide and 4-6 feet long, about 100 feet in the air. Because of the speed, he said it was actually a blur, but this is his best description. The rest of us saw nothing as we looked the direction it was going, and there was no visible tail. Note: none of us were predisposed to believe in UFOs, but probably not 100% disbelievers either,
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170561). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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