Oval over Stamford Texas, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Yes I was standing on my front porch in Stamford Texas. I noticed a large dark object moving slowly descending no more than 50 - 75 feet above the ground. I also noticed a dark orange light of some sort around the upper rim of the object. The way the object came down so low and so controlled i decided to wait and see if it would take off or go back up high enough to see it. Sure enough no more than 5 or 6 minutes later it lifted back up right above where I seen it come down at and as it started to slowly move to the north east the entire object rotated towards the direction it was moving. Towards the same direction it was coming from when I noticed it but I never actually seen it fly away. Once it finished rotating around I lost all sight of the object as if it just disappeared. The only way I noticed it was because of how large and dark it was other than the small glimmer of a dark orange colored light that was gleaming from the object but it wasn't a constant light it was like it only shined when light hit the object just right. I was sure to even report it but something changed my mind this happened early August
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178648). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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