North Carolina-2-16-08-At approximately 9:15 PM my husband arrived home from work and yelled for me to come outside. Directly above our home was a huge "ring" around the moon. We could see the moon through it. At first, we were very puzzled and decided to walk a bit and watch it. It dawned on us very quickly that, as hard as it is to explain, it was an object... a solid object. I cannot explain how we could see through it.

It is difficult to describe this as it's so beyond "normal." It got bigger and appeared to be "lowering." Again, we could only see the ring of the outer perimeter of it. We took pictures and the flash of the camera seemed to make it approach faster. We decided quickly to stop that. (Pictures show nothing, it was pitch black out.)

We went inside to make sure our children were okay as we'd been outside at least 20 minutes. Then we came back out, it had moved farther up. It was not nearly as close. There were at least 3 beams of light going across it, this did allow us to notice that it was rotating. I wish I could give more detailed info, but it was so hard to describe. I wanted to make a report as it happened. I honestly don't want to see it again. I am blown away that no one else seemed to notice-it was massive.

It left in an upward direction. When it was gone from sight, it was basically still overhead, by that I mean it was moving west. What could this object have been? Well, folks, any ideas?