Fireball over Clinton/Dunn, NC

The report, as filed

Me and my Wife were lying on the trampoline watching the stars as we did just about nightly. I spotted a faint light far in the distance and pointed it out to my Wife. As it got closer it appeared to be a "Pulsating Ball Of Fire/Orb" that was roughly the same size as the moon that night. As we continued observing the object it appeared to slowly move towards us and we realized we both saw the object had the image of a face. Everything seemed to freeze in time and I recall crackling like electricity over the whole sky and then a sudden cool breeze. I also remember a sudden strong smell of decay/rot. Also when the object got really close there were Black whispy beings around the object as if escorting it and the sound of gigantic wings flapping like a flock of geese, but much, much louder as if they were giant beings and that's where the strong wind was coming from. My wife has repeatedly said that they were Black Angels. Other than that everything was deathly SILENT. I remember thinking I was losing my mind and I called law enforcement. We ran inside and a cat we had started freaking out and a weird feeling swept over me. We went back out and the object suddenly flashed and turned into a yellow fireball with a tail like a comet, changed direction, and vanished. The next thing I remember is Sampson County Sheriff Deputies arriving and us telling them that I was asleep and my wife had woken me suddenly and pulled a huge prank on me so they wouldn't think I was insane and have me Involuntary Committed. They searched the house for narcotics and also searched outside and around the trampoline we were on. I recall the Deputy asking me if we had been killing any animals around the house because of the smell I assume. After the Deputies left, the next thing I recall is waking up and it being daylight and wondering if I had dreamed all this I am recalling to you now. Then I remembered the VIDEO, which I didn't when the Sheriff's Deputies we're when I called early that morning. To this day I'm not sure what happened and I have many unanswered questions and my Wife refuses to have a direct detailed conversation of what we witnessed. I Seriously Need To Know What We Witnessed. *- I HAVE VIDEO OF THE EVENT RECORDED WITH MY PHONE. ORIGINALLY THERE WERE 2 BUT 1 SOMEHOW DISSAPEARED FROM MY GOOGLE DRIVE ACCOUNT. I had reported this before but not in detail and was contacted by email by an investigator but I got no phonecall as I was informed I would and when I started asking questions that I wanted answered, I no longer got a response by email or any other means and this event affected my life and still does on a daily basis.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171453). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.