2005-06-23 - Avinger, TX - Cylinder

A white cylindrical object apparently without wings flew from SSE to NNW and I took a very good picture of it.

On June 23, 2005 at approximately 7:00PM my twelve year old son and I had walked to the lake shore for him to play while I took several pictures with my Fujifilm FinePix 2800 digital camera. The sky was mostly clear but the wind was approximately 15MPH. At exactly 8:00PM (according to the time on the pictures I took) I heard what sounded like a jet, and I looked for a few seconds for it (direction of sound was somewhat difficult to ascertain due to the wind and the waves by the lake shore) before I spotted what I assume was the source of the sound. The object appeared to my naked eye to be white and cylindrical without wings and flew from south-southeast to north-northwest in a straight line at a speed that didn't seem unusually fast or slow for a jet, and I believe it was lower than most of the jets I see in the area because I could see it fairly well with my eyes and it was clearly visible. Barksdale AFB and the Shreveport Regional airport are east of my location approximately 60 miles and most jets I see travel from west to east or east to west in this area and I've taken a number of pictures of them as well. The object did not produce a contrail nor exhibit any unusual behavior other than appearing to fly without wings. I attempted to take three pictures of the object (zoomed at 6X at 2 megapixels), the first of which turned out very good and clear and verified that no wings were visible. The second picture was focused on the tree tops and the object was blurry and washed out, and by the time I took the third picture I believe the object had disappeared behind the trees. From the time I first spotted the object to the time it disappeared was approximately fifteen seconds. My son continued playing and did not see the object, though he heard the sound of a jet engine.