Circle over Whitsett, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was watching the night sky. Thin, high clouds were racing by against a full moon. Suddenly, the thin ribbons were replaced by thicker, dark clouds. A circle roughly formed, with ribbons of bright blue and silver rippling from the center out to the rim. The disc slowly began to rotate, about as a fast as a radome on an AWACS aircraft. I watched until it suddenly dissolved, then the thin clouds reappeared. I'm a former police officer and US Army veteran. I'm familiar with many types of aircraft including helicopters but I've never seen anything like this.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148087). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-02 → 2019-08-19