Circle over Washington, NC
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The report, as filed
I was in a car driving when I observed the object. The sky was completely clear and it was morning. The small circular object first appeared to me as if it was a fixed object in the sky but upon further observation it was moving from right to left slowly at a far off distance. My first impression was that it looked like a small moon--it was the same color as the moon in daylight. But then I saw it glinted silver from the sun. Again, it clearly pretty far away, so no other detail from the object could be seen (other than it appeared circular and was silver). Although it was moving across the sky like a plane, it did not have a plane shape. I obviously have seen many planes in the sky and this didn't look anything like that. Also, there was no white trail or anything from the object to indicate it was a plane. It was bizarre. I saw it for the entire time I was driving that direction on the road. Once I made a turn, I couldn't look that way anymore.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #135256). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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