Cigar over Lake Charles, LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was with three other people. One didn’t see anything. I and two others saw it. We were sitting at my complex’s pool around sunset while several airplanes with lights passed by. My friend said “what is THAT?!” and that’s when I saw it. It looked like a brown stick with tendrils. It had no lights on it, and was flying faster than the planes (which all had their lights on) around it. Sporadic flight patterns. At first we thought it could have been an insect, until the object flew further down and disappeared behind an apartment building, meaning it was in the air and far larger than we thought. We don’t know what that was, but all three of us are convinced that what we saw was not a plane or a bug, but something unexplainable.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172490). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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