Circle over Cheraw, SC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside smoking and I heard a deafening humming sound. The sound was so loud a stray cat that wonders the parking lot took off running . I grabbed my ears and held my head down and when I looked up I seen a HUGE white ball falling out of the sky. As it was falling I noticed it was being flipped like a quarter so I seen the white light underside then I seen a black outline. Soon as I began to really look at it, it stop falling and disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #156319). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2020-05-03 → 2020-05-20
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