Other over Rosman, NC

The report, as filed

11:30pm...Started seeing a very bright light at the top of the mountain across from our Mountain top view. Distance was around 3,500 feet. Watched the intense white light move around the area where it was hanging out. Watched it for an hour or so. Thought it may have been really bright lights on a 4x4 at the top of the mountain. Then I saw it moving up in the air and this is when I got very curious. I went and setup my 50x spotting scope on a tripod and zoomed in on the light. This is when I started saying out loud “what the f$@! Is that!!!” With my eye it just looked like 1 bright light. Through the spotting scope it was 2 concentric rings. Both rings had a number of round lights/spheres. 6 to 8 equally spaced lights on the outer ring. 4 to 6 equally spaced lights on the inner ring. All the lights appeared to be the same size. It appeared to be hovering just over the treetops moving around in the same general area. At times it would quickly squiggle up mayb! e 100 feet or more then squiggle down to where it was. After a couple of hours of hovering and moving around a bit, it seemed to have landed as it was now stationary and the light was filtered through the trees. Although there still seemed to be a little movement. My two buddies were all witness to this. We were all very perplexed as to what we were seeing. Watched this for a total of 6 hours. Finally fell asleep from exhaustion. Tried getting photos through the scope with our phones..did not work.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149396). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.