Cigar over Rome, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I saw an oblong craft hovering in the air I can’t give an estimate of how high up but it looked like it was way lower than any aircraft would normally fly. And it was shining some type of green laser light down from it in intervals and then I turned the flashlight on my phone and pointed it up towards it and then the craft sped off very fast. Not sure how an aircraft can go from hovering to flying at that speed in a split second
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176010). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-05-29 → 2023-06-15
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