Cylinder over HARTSVILLE, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We could see a bright cylinder shaped object silently floating through the trees in the clear blue sky. By the time we got our boat around the bend for a better view, the object had drifted away quite a bit, it looked like a cruise missile without any exhaust trail, it was floating sideways, not end to end like a plane or missile...a minute or two later we saw a jet flying over...I took a few shots of the jet but it wasn't until later that I noticed the other round objects in the frame with the jet, these round objects were not visible to the naked eye.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172692). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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