Sphere over Hamer, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was sitting on my porch and saw a flash of light. I thought it was lightning so I looked up and saw a very bright sphere with an orange glow. It was moving very slow and the light was pulsating or the object was rotating. I ran in the house and got my son and father-in-law. Came back out and saw it again. It would go from dim to dark to extremely bright. It was still moving slow and stopping. All of a sudden it shot up into air and disappeared, but came back just as fast. While looking for the first one a second one came in just like it and followed a very similar pattern. The objects appeared like a sphere but the light or glow around it was similar to an upside down top.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #148512). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-08-23 → 2019-09-09
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