Other over Linden, VA
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The report, as filed
Standing on my back steps outside and was looking up at the sky close to where the sun was. The sun was just behind the top of a tree branch and is why I could stare right in the vacininity of the sun. While doing so I observed countless white orb like objects. Some were streaking by and some going very slow. I even seen some intersect each other, stop for a second and shoot off the other way. After observing that for about 20 minutes with binoculars, I went and got my wife. She also observed the white orbs. But then it got very interesting. While me and my wife were still watching, I seen a darker object which at first I thought was a bird. I kept watching it and I noticed it was moving oddly and in certain movements there was a very bright reflection coming off of it. It became apparent to me that it wasn't a bird. So I grabbed my binoculars for a closer look, and to my amazement it was in fact a flying saucer in every sense of the word. When observed thro! ugh binoculars it was a reddish metallic color and clearly a saucer shape with a dome on the top, all seamless. The object was visible for about 30 seconds or so but I only observed it with the binoculars for about the last 5 seconds, since I thought it was a bird for a majority of the time. It was truly amazing. There is more oddities to the story but that is the jist of it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159497). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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