Changing over Orange Beach, AL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
A strange white cloud moving low and fast was spotted over ocean. It looked like a white school bus shaped object inside a cloud. It all moved as one. I grabbed my phone as it changed shape into a swirling pattern. Then the front became a reflective triangular object. The triangle shot off in the blink of an eye, leaving the cloud part behind. The cloud stopped moving, turned grayish, and slowly disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177951). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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