Other over Unknown, IA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was a passenger in a moving vehicle and I was taking a picture of the sunset in Iowa and I took two pictures back to back and when I looked at the second picture days later I noticed an object in the picture that was not in the first picture nor was it in the distance of the area I was photographing. It looks as if there is a rectangular three-dimensional platform and a dark shadow that descends in the shape of a cone
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170556). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-07-14 → 2022-07-31