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Disk over Reidsville, NC

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i was trying to sleep and....

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April 26, 2023 · 10:30 PM · LIGHT

Reidsville, NC

I went out into the backyard to let the dogs out, and noticed an extremely bright light in the sky. I stared at it for a moment and it did not appear to be moving, and then I realized it was hovering very slowly in an inconsistent pattern (as opposed to drifting or flying upward on a path). The light was so bright and large that it almost appeared burning, as if it were a large meteor, but the movement of the light made it impossible to be a meteor, because it was not falling down towards the Earth. Another result of the size and pure brightness of the light is that it was very disorienting as far as depth perception; it was very hard to tell how far away it was because of the bright, burning nature of the light. When I say "burning", I mean similar to a pulsating light, but closer to the way light appears to move through a fire. I watched it move for no more than two minutes, then went inside to grab my phone and came back outside (no more than 30 seconds later), and it was gone, which is very strange considering how slowly it was moving.

July 11, 2019 · 12:00 AM · CIGAR

Reidsville, NC

There's normally one really bright one and the rest are small not as bright and they blink sometimes they blink red or white but they've actually been side by side with me going down the road while I'm in my car they go the same speed as me when I stop based off when I turned a turn I know it sounds crazy but I can prove it cuz they do it every night other than the nights when it's cloudy and raining I'm not sure what they are but I know that I see them every night and last night one shot from the back of my car I'm driving down the road and it shot over my car towards the right and it was kind of saucer-shaped you know like a puffed tortilla when you cook it and it puffs up and it had a blue fish white light outlining the middle of it like around it and then it just went out and I couldn't see it anymore I know the story sounds crazy but I can prove it like I said it happens every night.

December 2, 2016 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT

Reidsville, NC

Last night around 8:00pm I was outside with me dad and I looked straight up and a very bright flash hit my eyes. I asked my dad did you see that? Next thing you know we see the light kind of looked like the size and distance of the International space station. We watch it surge in speed and sometimes slow to a stall. It would blink on at very random times. From 2 seconds to 10 seconds before another flash. It was north towards lake reidsville in NC. To me it looked like a UFO losing power and getting surges of power to light up and move faster. Then when my wife came out after 5 minutes it started to slow and fade with every flash. Then it disappeared. It did not travel far across the sky in a north east direction. 3 of us saw it and know it was not a plane due to the distance and varying speed, light brightness and timing of the flash. Something was losing power or down. Pretty amazing sight

January 31, 2014 · 12:00 AM · OTHER