As reported

Sphere over Duarte, CA

A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.

The report, as filed

I went outside with my dog and observed three flickering round red and yellow objects in the sky, the objects were moving away from each other in different directions so I decided to film them, by the time I could queue up my camera phone only two objects remained and I focused on the closest while the other moved up and over my head, the object I was filming then slowly moved west from my location and then sped up quickly and diasappeared. I will gladly share video footage

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115495). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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