Sphere over Franklin couny, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was riding along as a passenger when something told me to look up. When I looked up I seen a white looking sphere. I grabbed my phone to record what I was seeing. It was in the northeast sky. When I started to try to record it. It took off & was gone in a blink of a eye!! I had to replay it & pause it frame by frame to catch the image because it took off so fast. My phone shows it take off & when I looked at the time stamp it took 1 second to dissappear.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #173652). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-05 → 2022-09-22