NUFORC Sighting 29551

Occurred: 2003-07-05 19:40 Local
Reported: 2003-07-05 20:11 Pacific
Duration: <2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Athens, AL, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

Cylinder shaped object travelling at high rate of speed. No contrail, no sound.

My husband and I saw a cylinder-shaped object in the partly cloudy sky.

At first, I thought I was looking at an aircraft, but this object had no wings, no contrail, and no sound. It appeared to be at a very high altitude, but this is difficult to penpoint, as I don't know how large the object was. However, there was an airplane traveling from North to South at a high altitude leaving a contrail.

The object in question was travelling from east to west at what appeared to be a high velocity. It literally streaked across the sky in a matter of minutes, two a most, and then disappeared into the horizon. It reminded me of looking at a comet, but this object was moving too fast.

Background--> husband is a NASA engineer at MSFC; I am a high school biology teacher.

I am so confounded by what I saw. It fits no logical category of any flying craft that I am aware of. I am a skeptical person by nature, but I know what I saw was not an airplane.

We live in Huntsville but were in Athens visiting relatives.

Posted 2003-07-16

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