Other over York County, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The area was quite open being an eight lane road with single story businesses and a mid sized man made lake that parallels the road. Suddenly a bright flash caught my eye. I immediately looked to my left and about 400-600ft above the tree line a big (semi cab size), what appeared to be a orange (star color) translucent cube with it's edges glowing plasma white. The sky was extremely clear at that moment and it just looked like it shot out of nothing, slowly rotated around 2 times (.5-1 second, distance 2 miles) while leaving a small line white trail (similar to a shooting star). Then proceeded to blast off about 3-5 miles at light speed and disappeared back into nothing. I've seen several ufos before much further up in the sky and the traditional shapes but this thing was unlike anything else. It's proximity, shape, and speed were completely foreign to me. Almost as if it jumped in through a portal and the immediately left after 2 seconds. Anyways, just wanted to report this to potentially get info in the future of similar sightings or maybe someone sees this report and saw the same thing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159147). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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