Circle over Snow Hill, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I went outside for my nightly walk down the street, headed towards the local county prison. As I was walking, I saw bright light due North East. I don’t know what it was about it, but it honestly did not look any differently than all of the other stars in the sky. So I more or less ignored it, even though it seemed to be a bit brighter than the rest of the stars. I’m not sure, but like a majority of stars, I just kind of picked it out of the rest. I continued my walk, but occasionally looked in the area of the light, and it was still there. This went on for around 5-10 minutes. Again, I didn’t pay much attention to it. I'd go along, look in the direction of the light, see that it was still there, (albeit it APPEARED to have moved a tiny bit but I’m chalking that up to a visual illusion) take a few more steps, so on and so forth. Then, all of a sudden, it begins to move. And quickly. I watched it accelerate upwards, and then it flew west and disappeared. That is pretty much it. Not much else to add to this particular experience
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #120350). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-11-07 → 2014-11-24
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