Light over Germanton, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was watching the meteor shower and all of a sudden a light rises up and it looked like it sat there for a minute. Then it moved in a zigzag pattern then moved in a straight line and it kinda sounded like a plane but a bit quieter. It looked white and it was a circular light. There was only one that I seen. I went to take a picture of it on my phone and then my phone shut off and died.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #137775). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-12-11 → 2017-12-28
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