Oval over Thomasville/Greensboro, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Traveling right to left (NE) on a crystal clear "blue sky" evening at 8:30 pm, a circular light the size of a house "jitterbugged" across the sky in front of my car - 1000 ft OUT and 5-7000 ft UP, as I traveled with my family. It stayed very illuminated for 2 minutes then VANISHED in a split second. It appeared again 10 miles up the interstate 3000 ft out and 10,000 ft UP. We pulled over and watched it for 4 minutes over the Grandover Hotel, then it vanished again. When it vanished- it didn't speed away in a direction - it just disappeared from the clear blue sky right in front of us. It shook me up! I do not believe in alien space craft, but my wife is in the airline business and we know an aircraft when we see it (especially that close), so I am at a loss for what this could be. I am fascinated how many people were traveling up that interstate and had to see this bright massive light over the interstate - and failed to post it anywhere on the net.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #127823). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-06-06 → 2016-06-23