Other over Madison, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were in the car, stopped waiting to turn. My wife saw a crescent shaped object in the sky to our southeast, above the tree line. The sun was behind the trees. She described the object as looking like light being reflected off a mirrored crescent with a smaller object attached on the bottom. After a second or two, it disappeared suddenly. The car was not moving during the sighting.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #139371). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-04-01 → 2018-04-18
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