Cigar over Rock island and cookeville, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was passing over head like a satellite, it's like it heard my dog barking, then it came back towards us and centered itself with us and our home, started descending towards us then stopped and seemed to just observe. Over an hour later we went to cookeville where it followed us and was there when we went to leave my sisters house located right behind sams club off 40. I finally got two pictures there. I also got a video the next night. I see this now any night it is clear. It has us all concerned and freaked out.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174249). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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