Oval over Carson City, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
We were in the middle of a skirmish during a event at Nevada state prison doing training when something told me to look up in the sky. From my viewpoint what I saw could be described as a piece of aluminum foil rotating, and it was shiny from all angles. I tried to get some teams to look at it, and they couldn’t see it initially. At that point an airplane flew by and perspective, they could see what I was referring to. It continued to stay there for another three more minutes until it kind of just like a light switch went off and just disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176320). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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