Oval over Casa Grande, AZ
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The report, as filed
We were sitting on our patio. I noticed an unusually beautiful, white puffy cloud. I grabbed my phone and took a picture of it. I noticed something moving above the cloud. I took another picture of the object and zoomed in.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171992). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-20 → 2022-10-07
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