Shape of Object(s)

cigar shaped

Color of Object(s):

whitish

Full Description & Details

My daughter attended a five week camp this summer in Gooding, Idaho, far from our East Coast home. One day, she was sitting in the desert with a friend writing letters and she looked up at the sky, distracted by something she saw out of the corner of her eye. It was a very big unidentified flying object, a whitish color, and cigar shaped. Most notably, she said, it wasn't flying horizontally or vertically, but rather diagonally through the sky. What impressed her the most was the complete absence of any sound at all. In the desert, the sky is so huge and unfathomable and she'd become accostomed to seeing planes flying overhead---but always accompanied by sound. The absence of sound, in this case, alerted her that she was seeing something "not of this world." The look of the craft, she said, also informed her that this was something she'd never seen before, something completely foreign.

What impressed me about her sighting is that, as a teenager, the only exposure she's had to UFO's have been from Hollywood movies and typically crafts are depicted as saucer-shaped ships. And secondly, being young, she's never had an interest in UFO's, so this was a very innocent sighting. Seeing something "cigar shaped" could not have come from her imagination, as she'd never heard of a cigar shaped UFO before.

She alerted her friend and asked her to see if she was seeing the same thing. They watched the craft glide across the sky and my daughter reports a feeling of awe mixed with a bit of fear. I've asked her how far away it was, but like a lot of kids, she isn't tutored well in distances and reports that it was about as high as other planes usually were, but because it was so big, it felt closer than other aircraft she'd seen and heard.

They were afraid to tell their camp counselors, thinking they'd be pegged as "weird" but before leaving camp to come home, she overheard another counselor telling someone that plenty of people had reported seeing UFO's in the area throughout the camp's history.

Witness Background

I am a reporter, certified tour manager and writer. I am college educated. My daughter is a bright 17-year-old senior in high school.

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