Fireball over Simpsonville, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My first experience with these red worms was on Christmas night where I had the most surreal experience of my life. The days following I was in a haze, knowing something was off but thinking better of questioning if I brushed it off. A few days after Christmas I left my parents house and Pickens and drove to my apartment in Simpsonville. As I was driving I began to spot one or two of the same orbs. Panic set in and I did not know why. When I got to my apartment I noticed one of them was maybe a mile away from me. Panicked, I ran into my apartment I locked myself in. As I sat on my couch trying to convince myself that I needed to calm down but I couldn't shake it. Minutes later, through closed blinds a very bright orb flashed at me and was immediately followed by another. Again I remember watching them for at least two hours, wishing I could go to sleep but never allowing myself to even try fearing I would be harmed in someway. At some pointI remember losing The clarity in my hearing and hearing a low drum buzzing noise. But this point my phone died and I was too afraid to go get my charger from my car. And that was it. I woke up sometime later on the floor again in a sweat and totally confused. Is about 9 AM I got up took my dead phone and drove to a friend of mine's place. Upon arrival, she criticize me for standing her up the day before. That was even more confusing because I knew that she wasn't going to be home until the next day. As it turns out I had missed the day. It was a day later and I had no recollection of the events, if any, that occurred the day before. 24 hours was just completely missing. The buzzing kept coming back randomly for a week or so.. My fear got the best of me and I uprooted myself and moved up to New York very shortly after.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #117990). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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