Other over Fairmont, NC
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At approximately 1:45pm, in Fairmont, North Carolina, I saw a small light colored object traveling very very fast in a NW direction. It was either round or square, not oblong like a plane or jet. I'm guessing it was at 30,000-40,000 feet. As I was watching it, it disappeared in an instant. That is what makes me think it was a UFO. An aircraft would be visible for quite a longer distance till it was too far away to see. The object I saw simply vanished from the sky.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179544). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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