Cigar over Orange City, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I go for a walk everyday around the same time at this park a few miles away from where I live. I left my house at 11:19 am and I was pulling up to the Carpenter and Dixson intersection stop sign, a car was coming from my left and so as I waited for it to pass so I could turn right on Carpenter, I looked up in the distance towards the skyline and I saw the cigar shaped object. It was moving left to right across my field of view. It straddled the bottom of the cloud line and it was covered in a haze. Looked grey and I had a strange feeling upon seeing it. I thought it must be a blimp but I thought to myself there’s no way that’s a blimp and attempted to pull out my phone and record it. However, it passed the tree line and out of my view. I thought, based on its direction and speed I’d get a better look as I made my way towards 17-92 and to the park so I proceeded to drive. Unfortunately, when I had a clear line of sight again (15-20 sec drive) the object was nowhere to be seen.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171036). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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