Changing over portland, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was heading from Gallatin to Portland on highway 109 when I saw a large black line appear in the sky it morphed from a horizontal line into a large diamond shape all black could see no lights only black looked to be much larger than a airplane by maybe 10 times but I could tell it was very high in the sky. The sky was clear and blue. It had folded itself open like a piece of paper looked very black and flat.. It was just stationary for about 30 second then folded back up to a black line and disappeared. I never saw it move or fly it just opened up and then closed and was not there anymore.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172761). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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