Appearance / Description of Object(s)

This craft was cigar shaped and - probably-black. There was very little time to see it, as it was only visible when lightning flashed.

Size of Object(s)

If my arms were streched out, my fingers would probably be one inch apart. The craft (this is a guess) was probably 400 feet in length.

Description of Area / Surroundings

RURAL! There was a power plant (the Cherokee Dam) located probably 5-25 miles southeast.

Full Description & Details

This was during, I believe, late March 2006. It was just before 9:00 PM. A severe thunderstorm was coming through Union County. Funnel clouds had been spotted, and I was preparing to go to my basement, when a flash of lightning illuminated a cigar shaped craft. Three seconds later, it was just to the north of Signal Point, a mountain. Let me give you some location details: Signal Point and House Mountain provide a wide pass where my house stands, near the foot of Signal Point. The third and final sighting showed the craft as somewhere just west of the Blaine Tower, which is a large television broadcast tower no longer in use. I then went to my basement. NOTE: this was a 180 degree turn in little more than six seconds. The craft would have flown at least 10 miles.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

It was similar in shape to a blimp, but no blimp was in the area that night, and the pilot would have been crazy to fly through a tornadic supercell.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting

I had decided that I would believe that UFOs existed when I saw one, and I saw one.

Reported Sighting? 

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