Sphere over Duanesburg, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bizarrely, staring at the object gave both of us the perception of VERY large, red lightning streaks emanating from it. I vocalized this red streaks experience and my wife said the same was happening to her; the streaks appeared more orange to her. At this point we pull out and iphone 5 to capture the brilliance of it on camera. Naturally, the video just shows a bright white sphere against a black background. The camera could not see what we saw. We must have watched the sphere for a few minutes. We had the inclination to drive another .5 miles to go home and get a better camera. We started the car and the object lost its red brilliance. Within 5 seconds of losing the red streaks characteristics, it disappeared by closing in on itself. While driving and lamenting this fact, a much faster moving and closer red and white object was visible in the Southwestern sky. The first object was far away. This second one was so close and so low that it appeared to descend quickly just over some trees not that far away. The road did not exactly allow us to investigate exactly where we thought this thing was aiming to land. The second red object lacked the red streaks characteristic of the first one.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #113505). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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