Cylinder over Mt. Rainier National Park- Ashford, WA, WA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
In August 2022, I visited Mt. Rainier National Park with my cousin. I took a bunch of pictures with my I-phone 8. It wasn't until I got back to my hotel in Ashford that evening that I saw something in the photo. While zooming in to the left of the mountain, it appears to be something that resembles a typical "UFO." It looks like a gray object in the clouds to the left of the mountain. I took 3 pictures back-to-back, and it only appeared in the 3rd photo. I did not see anything or hear anything at the time of taking the pictures. The location was near the Henry M. Jackson visitor center, on the trail to Myrtle Falls. You may contact me if you need any more information. Thank you.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174456). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-06 → 2022-08-23