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A Mysterious Square Aircraft Hovering in Night Sky ‘Scared Me To Death,’ NC Man Says
By Mark Price
Another alleged UFO sighting near Charlotte has appeared on Facebook and in this case, it was posted by a hus- band and father who says he doesn’t necessar- ily believe in UFOs.
Javion Hill, 35, of Kings Mountain, North Carolina, says he took sev- eral photos of the object during a storm on the night of Aug. 18, as he drove on U.S. 74 south- west of Charlotte.
The images fea- ture something square hovering above the tree- line, with its edges fringed in lights. Hill told the Charlotte Observer the craft frightened him to the point that he didn’t sleep that night.
“Iwasonmyway
home with my wife on the speaker phone, and it looked like there was a tor- nado coming, so I was trying to take a picture of the clouds for my wife,” says Hill.
“But then I saw something that wasn’t normal and I was, like: ‘Oh my god, what is that?’ I started trying to take as many pictures of
it as possible while I was driv- ing.”
Hill says he pulled over at the next exit to try and get video, but the aircraft had vanished. A heavy rain fol- lowed instantly, he said.
North Carolina is in the top 10 among the 50 states when it comes to alleged
UFO sightings, according to the National UFO Reporting Center in Davenport in Washington state.
The state has had 7,570 report- ed UFO sightings since 1940, some of which have inspired conspira- cy theories of ongoing secret military experi- ments, according to the odds mak-
ers at Casino.org. The site recently calculated the odds of seeing a UFO in NC as 1 in 135,500.
Hill says it’s pos- sible what he saw was a mili- tary craft. Conspiracy theo- rists maintain many UFO sight- ings in the region are actually an experimental mili- tary spacecraft known as the TR-
3B, an anti-gravi- ty craft that hov- ers. Some believe the craft is from one of the state’s military bases, which include Fort Bragg, Pope Field and Camp Lejeune.
Military.com repor ts the TR-3B “doesn’t exist offi- cially.”
Reaction to Hill’s photo has includ- ed mostly ques- tions, but at least one
person, Shelby native Eric White, said he also saw something in the same area that “vanished in thin air.”
Hill says what he saw is actually bigger than what is seen in the photo.
“I was worried for my safety,” he said. “I didn’t believe in UFOs until that moment.”
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