As reported

Unknown over Somerset, KY

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The report, as filed

I was walking home from class and I see this bright flash in the sky, and it kind of just lingered there for a few seconds. There were cars driving by so they might have saw but I have no way of contacting them to know for sure. Then it was like it spotted me. Like it knew that I had saw it so it started circling me high in the air like a vulture would. I am a professor at the college, so I have heard some of my colleagues talk about things like this. So it circled me for a while an it mesmerized me. Then it was like I couldn't move. Then the next thing I know it's like I was dropped from the sky and I looked at my phone and it was roughly seven minutes later but it felt like no time at all. I knew it had been that amount of time because I had checked my phone just before I had saw the object. It couldn't have been an aircraft and I thought it was one of those stupid drones but I don't think it was on behalf of the sudden lapse in time that seemed to happen.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #134882). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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