Cigar over Gibbon, NE
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Was lying in my hammock on the deck behind my house facing north. A silver-white object traveled SE to SW. It soon returned and went SW to SE. There were no wings, it was silent and traveled at a consistent rate of speed. My son looked at it through cheap binoculars and couldn’t tell what it was.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171303). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-08-18 → 2022-09-04