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Festus, Missouri (United States)

Sighted on Friday 04. October 2019
Reported on
Shape: Cigar | Duration: 00:03:00
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At approximately 4:30 p.M. central time on friday, october 4, 2019, i was traveling south on u.S. highway 67 south of festus, mo. i witnessed a gray and silver, cigar-shaped object, ahead (south) of me, hovering and rotating slowly. i said, "look what is that?". my brother said, "maybe a weather balloon or something?". my very first thought was a distant helicopter was ahead of us. when i say that it was rotating slowly, i say that because it was sometimes a flatter gray color. then, it would appear it was turning and sunlight would reflect from it or something. it was like i was seeing a more silvery part of it. when i started visually tracking this object, it was ahead of me (south), but eventually, it was to my left (east) as i drove along the route of the highway. i descended a hill and followed a major curve in the route. i reached the point where the object was at about an 85 degree angle to the left (east). to keep visually tracking on it, i had to look carefully out of the top of the driver's side window, otherwise my view was obstructed by the top of the door. i wasn't able to make out the shape of the object well, until i was passing the object on my left side. at that point i ascertained it was a cigar-shaped object, but perhaps it would be more accurately described as an oblong, pill capsule type shape. it was probably 500-100 feet above the ground. i am estimating this because there was a cellphone tower in the foreground, a little closer to the highway that i know from experience had to be around 150-200 feet in elevation. i think the object was probably around 25 feet in length and less than 10 feet in height. i did not stop, but kept on traveling because of time constraints and traffic. as i thought about what i had observed, i realized there was not a simple explanation for it that was readily evident to me. therefore, i decided after giving it further thought to report the object.

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