7/23/2008: Columbia, MO, USA

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Occurred : 7/23/2008 18:00 (Entered as : 07/23/08 18:00) Reported: 11/11/2009 11:55:53 AM 11:55 Posted: 12/12/2009 Location: Columbia, MO Shape: Cigar Duration: 5 minutes
I WAS IN MY BACK YARD, I LOOKED UP AND SAW A SILVER CIGAR SHAPE OBJECT. I WAS IN MY BACK YARD, I LOOKED UP AND SAW A SILVER CIGAR SHAPE OBJECT, TRAVELING WEST TO EAST, FLYING AS HIGH AS PASSENGER JET WITH TWO SMALL POINT LIKE PROTRUSIONS STICKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES. NO CONTRAIL. A JET FLEW BY A FEW MIN. LATER TO HELP DETERMINE SIZE AND SPEED. CIGAR MUCH LARGER THAN JET, FLEW AT SAME SPEED. ON THE JET I COULD SEE MARKING AND WINGS WELL. THE CIGAR HAD NO MARKING, VERY STREAM LINED. STAYED ON STRAIGHT COURSE DURING SIGHTING. Witness did not contact police nor any other UFO organization. No photos. Report received by MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP - http://ufomig.bravehost.com ((NUFORC Note: We express our sincere gratitude to the MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP, and to its Director, BARBARA BECKER, for their having shared this report with our Center. If you have had a sighting in Missouri, please consider contacting that organization, at the website above, to share your sighting with their investigators, in addition to submitting a report to NUFORC. Thank you!! PD))

National UFO Reporting Center Sighting Report

Occurred : 7/23/2008 18:00 (Entered as : 07/23/08 18:00)
Reported: 11/11/2009 11:55:53 AM 11:55
Posted: 12/12/2009
Location: Columbia, MO
Shape: Cigar
Duration: 5 minutes

I WAS IN MY BACK YARD, I LOOKED UP AND SAW A SILVER CIGAR SHAPE OBJECT.

I WAS IN MY BACK YARD, I LOOKED UP AND SAW A SILVER CIGAR SHAPE OBJECT, TRAVELING WEST TO EAST, FLYING AS HIGH AS PASSENGER JET WITH TWO SMALL POINT LIKE PROTRUSIONS STICKING OUT OF BOTH SIDES. NO CONTRAIL. A JET FLEW BY A FEW MIN. LATER TO HELP DETERMINE SIZE AND SPEED. CIGAR MUCH LARGER THAN JET, FLEW AT SAME SPEED. ON THE JET I COULD SEE MARKING AND WINGS WELL. THE CIGAR HAD NO MARKING, VERY STREAM LINED. STAYED ON STRAIGHT COURSE DURING SIGHTING.

Witness did not contact police nor any other UFO organization. No photos.

Report received by MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP - http://ufomig.bravehost.com

((NUFORC Note: We express our sincere gratitude to the MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP, and to its Director, BARBARA BECKER, for their having shared this report with our Center. If you have had a sighting in Missouri, please consider contacting that organization, at the website above, to share your sighting with their investigators, in addition to submitting a report to NUFORC. Thank you!! PD))