JANUARY 1, 2023……………DAGSBORO DELAWARE
Sunday, New Year’s Day, 2023 around 4:00 in the evening, 4 of us were the last ones on the pickleball court. I had turned back SE towards the baseline to serve when I heard a single engine plane passing overhead NNE. When I looked up I noticed that a thin cylindrical object was trailing the plane- behind and offset to the east. It was slightly tapered and wasn’t lit, or reflecting sunlight, it simply had a dull off-white metallic look to it. The sky was deep blue with only one small solitary cumulus fractus cloud to the north. Unlike commercial jets crossing overhead this object made no contrail and had no visible wings, tail, or rudder. At first I thought both objects had a similar altitude, but as they passed by the cloud the plane was well below it, approx 1,000 – 1,500 feet high while the object went behind the cloud putting it’s altitude at approximately 4,500 feet. The plane continued its flight in a straight line and took just seconds to pass by underneath the cloud.
The object went behind the cloud and was unobservable for about 15 seconds. When it reappeared it came out from behind the cloud at a 45* angle to its original path. It traveled a short distance and then incredibly stopped in midair It remained motionless for several seconds, then reversed course and went back behind the cloud. Now that the plane had gone there was no sound at all. Again, several seconds passed and then the object reappeared and took up the same stationary spot in the sky. One of my playing partners questioned if we thought the object was changing shape. As we watched, it looked to me as if an aura was forming around the object which itself became blurry and seemed to break up before the whole “blob” stabilized as a round illuminated shape. It was now smaller too, more star like. The object either dropped down underneath, or maneuvered toward the northern edge of the cloud and then maintained a relative position with respect to the cloud as both drifted east toward the Atlantic.
My partners lost interest and we resumed play. I continued to glance back every time there was a break in the game. Three times it was still visible, miles to the east of us, but relatively in the same spot with respect to the cloud it drifted beside. On the fourth occasion I looked up and it was gone. If you had held a golf ball at arms length the small plane it initially appeared with would have fit in that diameter, prop to tail. The cylindrical or cigar shaped object was just a bit shorter, but also as it turned out, much higher in the sky. I estimated that it took up roughly 2 degrees arc of the sky. And based on the cloud type I calculated the object’s length to be roughly 150+ feet in length. The entire incident lasted less than 10 minutes. Commercial traffic passing overhead that day produced little to no contrail, but the sky was so clear that their wings and tails were clearly visible despite their high altitude. NOTE: The above image is real but from another case file.
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