Light over Rocky Point, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside walking my dog and saw a bright large orange ball of light high up in the sky. At one point I thought that I could see faint small blue and white lights almost spinning above the orange light. The ball of light began to move erratically up and down and side to side. It almost looked like a video game glitch. I have never seen anything like this before. No airplane moves like that. I ran inside to get my phone to try to record this and by the time I got back outside it was gone without a trace. Nothing else in the sky but stars.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #146073). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-05-08 → 2019-05-25
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