Sphere over Snellville, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The area park across from City Hall, in Snellville, GA, was packed full of people enjoying a variety of food vendors, bands, and festivities, before the crowning event fireworks display a little later in the evening. I was standing in line to buy an ice cream when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. Looking up, I saw two red glowing orbs moving very slowly towards us. There was no sound - although if there were, I probably wouldn’t have heard it above the music – just a gentle pulse of warm light. I asked the boy in front of me what he thought they were and he just shrugged. The orbs then stopped and just hung in the sky for a couple of minutes and then, moments later, the two objects took off in the direction from which they came at what seemed to be warp speed because in a millisecond they had become just two tiny points of light before disappearing. I’m not sure if anyone else saw them or not as I didn’t see anyone else besides myself and the boy looking up.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #111084). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-01 → 2014-07-18
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