Cylinder over Excelsior springs, MO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Moving NNE at a high speed seemed to be at a very high altitude no wings no light no sound no trail watched object move at a high rate of speed with no cloud coverage at all approximately three to five minutes later there was two very high flying aircraft following the same path the craft was cylinder and appeared to be some type of alloy or aluminum
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171978). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-21 → 2022-10-08
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