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Marion, North Carolina (United States)

Sighted on Saturday 23. August 2014
Reported on
Shape: Sphere | Duration: Undisclosed
Source:

At 9:15 PM on August 23, 2014 I went outside to have a cigarette. I looked up towards the SE sky and saw a glowing, white, spherical-shaped object hovering there. It looked fairly large too, maybe the size of a golf ball at arms length. It was making absolutely no noise. The object then started to slowly move towards the SE. I quickly ran to the door to get my mom to come look at it. She came out right away and I pointed out the object in the sky to her. She saw it too, but by this time, the object had already gotten smaller. (Approx. the size of a penny by the time my mom saw it.)It paused again in the sky, hovered for a moment, then once again started traversing towards the SE. As we watched the object, it began to get smaller, and as it got smaller, it turned an amber color, then orange, finally turning a deep red color before it completely disappeared.

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