NUFORC UFO Sighting 182035

Occurred: 2024-06-23 21:40 Local
Reported: 2024-06-24 14:42 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lafayette, LA, USA

Shape: Cylinder
Color: Grey
Estimated Size: 40-50 feet wide, 200 feet long.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Northwest.
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 1000 thousand feet.
Estimated Speed: Not moving at all.

Stationary cylinder that quickly disappeared after several minutes.

While jogging at night and heading generally northwest on Shelly drive, my daughter and I both saw a grey cylinder motionless in the air. We thought maybe a blimp, but there were no navigation blinking lights on it. There was no sound coming from it. We thought maybe an odd cloud or something, but it was very well defined in the shape of a cylinder, essentially the shape of a commercial aircraft fuselage without a nose, tail, or wings.

We continued jogging and watching it until we ran beneath some live oak trees. As soon as we emerged from beneath the tree canopy, the cylinder was gone. When we returned to the site where we originally saw the shape a few minutes earlier, there was nothing in the sky.

Neither of us were jogging with a phone/camera so unfortunately we have no pictures. We looked for social media posts to see anybody else saw anything. Closest we could find was a Starlink siting in a northern part of the state. Pictures on those posts did not look like what we saw. Those were moving objects that made a relatively bright line. What we saw was stationary and a much wider shape than typical Starlink pictures.

Posted 2024-06-27