Cylinder over Grand rapids, MI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I happened to be looking up to the South and in between the clouds I could see a white cylinder standing on its edge floating West above the clouds about the speed of a jet plane. The wind is about 15 to 25 miles an hour and it was going against the wind. I watched it for approximately 20 seconds before a cloud passed underneath it and it and obscured my view.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178696). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2023-10-03 → 2023-10-20
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