Oval over Silver Springs, FL
A conventional explanation is favored by the record but was never formally confirmed.
The report, as filed
This is a still shot taken of rain coming in.However if you look up at the whitest cloud there's a golden egg shaped object that appears to have something on top and a few things,* sorry best word I can think of on the front underside. [NUFORC annotation: Cloud - Probable]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177743). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-08-16 → 2023-09-02
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