Circle over Vonore, TN
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My brother and I witnessed two circular orange colored bright objects initially, one above the other. They moved somewhat slowly from the west to the east and appeared to fade away. After that we saw another singular object move across the same area, and then two more similar to the first sighting. I retrieved my Nikon DSLR camera and drove up to the top of a nearby hill. A singular object appeared and I shot some pictures, though I wasn’t able to adjust my camera properly. One note of interest: we heard a low roaring sound during the initial sighting, but not afterwards.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175795). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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