Diamond over Durham, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
While headed to visit a friend off of Kendall Dr. in Durham, NC in March 2021, I approached the stop light and waited in the left turn lane. As I looked ahead a notice a gold tear shape craft falling out of the sky in front of me. The craft was tear shape on the top and the bottom. The craft appeared to be dropping from about 15,000 ft to 10,000 ft to 5,000 ft and remained illuminated bright gold. And just as craft was approaching 2500-1000 ft, the craft would literally disappear from visibility, I looked to my right to see a woman in a car with a guy, and they were pointing up. We all looked in disbelief and shaking heads. I remember feeling a very weird feeling, and that I had never seen anything like this before. The stop light changed and I made the left onto Kendall Dr. I was visibly shaken and shared my experience with my friends and family. I've never been a big UFO person.. But I know what I saw that day. And it changed my life, and my very thought of possibility or something/someone else being out there.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176246). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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