As reported

Unknown over Leicester, NC

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The report, as filed

We saw something in the sky was still daylight is looked far off but high absolutely impossible for it to be any type of fireworks way to high up and was flying straight up with a trail behind it as some planes seem to do lost it in the clouds did video this bc not one of us could give a good explanation to what it was at all.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157306). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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