Cylinder over Penn valley, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Something caught my eye was reflecting off sun seemed to be moving left, then started going diagonal up towards thin cloud looked bigger than airplane then it vanished in thin air watched for 5 min and never reappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174071). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-01-19 → 2023-02-05
From the same sky