As reported

Fireball over John Day, OR

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About six thiety at night a orange ball was observed while driveing down the road was observed in the south eastern sky's just doing ra

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August 28, 2022 · 3:30 AM · CHANGING

John Day, OR

July 28, 2022 I went out on my porch to pee around 3:40 am and observed this object in the Southwest sky. I watched in disbelief and ran in and got my iphone. I photographed and video taped it until about 5:00 am when I finally went to bed. It would sometimes disappear and reappear but it was observable most of the time. I leaned against my truck and tried to hold my iphone camera as still as possible. It seemed predominantly a pulsating cube that would turn into a round object. You will see at times I zoomed in with my iphone camera. The light was a flashing white/yellowish, sometimes looking red. When I looked at it through my binoculars it looked like rubix cube with flashing lights with individual boxes on the outer edges and looked like it was spinning. When you zoom up you can see a halo of color around it. At one point when using my binoculars I saw a significantly smaller one slowly move away from it off to left side of it (East) then disappear. It appeared to get closer and further away.There was no sound. Please send me the details or call with any information you learn about this sighting. I have checked the night sky since then and have not seen it. I do not know how to tell how far away it was. I have 4 excellent videos of this craft moving radically and changing that are too big to send. How can I get them to you?

December 23, 2019 · 6:25 PM · UNKNOWN