As reported

Cylinder over Benson, NC

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The report, as filed

My husband and I were sitting outside and saw a bright/dimming object floating and appeared to be spinning and swaying back and forth in a short movement. The object would change from very bright to very dim. It appeared to have at times another light source surrounding it and a very large haze as well. It appeared to come closer and then move back at which case it would get brighter or more dim. It would almost look like it had disappeared but then return very bright and then do the same motion again. It did not remain stationary throughout this whole sighting. We also saw several what appeared to be shooting stars radiate just south of the object. It disappeared at 2:38am.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172719). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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My daughter who is 30 and myself. I am 51. We were riding in the car together and out of our windshield ahead of us we saw this object in the sky that at first I thought was a weather balloon and as I looked at it. I said to my daughter. What is that and she said mom? I was just thinking the same thing and we watched it. It never moved it was big. It was the shape of the planet Saturn. It was mirrored or silver. And it was extremely bright and all of a sudden. It just disappeared. We pulled into a neighborhood after it disappeared to see if we could spot it again and it was just gone.I still don't know. What it is we saw but it was a unidentified flying object! We searched the sky after pulling into the neighborhood and saw 2 planes off in the distance. Not near where the sighting was and they looked nothing like what we saw and there was nothing else in the sky. It was a blue sky and whatever we saw was gone. There was nothing!

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