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As reported

Disk over Rice, VA

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I was walking outside to go and drop something off on a neighbor's porch. When I look up to the sky and see what appears to be a shooting star. At this point I am super excited because I've never seen one before in my life, so of course I'm staring and watching it and walking up closer to try and get a better view. Sadly I did not have my phone in my pocket for the one freaking time in my life and I'm so sad and disappointed in myself, that'll never happen again.! But as I'm walking up I realized what I believe to be a shooting star is not moving and as I get closer I can clearly see it is lights in the sky, there's a light and then there's space in between the light and then there's another light and then there's space in between the light and so on and so forth. It begins to look like a disc, or a bended object in the sky. As I'm watching it's slowly begins to turn and rotate in a circle clockwise. It must have spun in a circle and rotated for a solid 30 seconds in front of me before slowly becoming invisible right before my eyes and slowly began to disappear in front of me. It is legitimately the most real and scariest and exciting experience I've ever had in my entire life. I was so excited and so scared. At the same time I could have pissed my own pants.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178642). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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My family and I were camping in Rice, Va 06/21/20 - 06/24/20. Around 8pm on 06/23/20 my daughter came running to ask me to come outside and see the “creepy things in the sky!” She, my other daughter, and son-in-law were all staring into the sky pointing at what they were seeing. I looked up and saw multiple round lights moving higher than an airplane we saw a little while later. I had my husband and 10 year old son join us outside to get their opinion. The lights were moving in the same direction at first but randomly separated; my husband said it could be a meteor shower until some of them stopped and changed direction. Then several more began to appear directly above us as if they were coming from nowhere, traveling in the same direction, at the same speed, the same distance apart from each other. We tried capturing pictures and video but the lights didn’t appear on camera. After several minutes in the same formation, the objects separated and began traveling in random directions, some disappearing and reappearing, others completely disappearing. None of us have an explanation for what we saw and it’s been on my mind since that night so I decided to report it. I hope this information is helpful.