Cylinder over Gibsonton, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside smoking a cig with my wife & roommates and looked in the sky and saw this white light then all the sudden it shot up 1000 ft in a second and stayed still. Then it started shape shifting and showed a white light then red then green for about 5 minutes and then all the sudden boom it just vanished! All of us couldn’t believe what we had just seen!
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170657). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-07-18 → 2022-08-04
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