As reported

Sphere over Ashland, NH

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As I was driving north on I-93, I noticed that the clouds looked different. They were whispy with different shades of purple shadowed across. I was looking at a very thin cloud shape directly in front of my line of vision. Of course, I had to pay attention to my driving, but I was mesmerized by the cloud. It had strange purple hues and I thought it was beautiful. All of a sudden, the cloud disappeared and 8 spherical shapes appeared in the sky. They appeared in a check mark against the sky. They were impossibly close to each other, and I immediately looked for a trail of any kind in the sky. I thought maybe somebody was shooting off fireworks. There was no visible trail, and I stared as each suddenly burst into a blinding crystal-like light. It was as if they all were encased in diamonds and the sun suddenly hit them. Then they were gone. In a flash, all 8 disappeared and the cloud that I had seen before was replaced by a slight mist. This mist became just a thin trail left behind of what I had seen. It was not the magnificent purple-hued cloud that had fascinated me at first. It was a thin veil of white smoke left in the wake and only a pattern of the spacecraft I had just witnessed.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115325). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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