Sphere over Antonito, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It was approximately 2030 hours. Five of us were night fishing at Platoro Lake in Colorado. We all looked up at the night sky to see what we thought was a shooting star. It was very bright orange and yellow little ball about twice as bright as the north star. It was falling at first then stopped and rose again while swaying side to side in random patterns. It then proceeded to make random patterns in somewhat of a circular movement before dimming to the point where it disappeared. We were all to shocked to grab the camera. It was absolutely amazing!! Also this all happened toward the east. There was absolutely no sound.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112986). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-08-21 → 2014-09-07
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