Sphere over Miami, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
After Thanksgiving dinner, my parents walked me out to my truck. We were talking outside when we noticed an orange orb fly above us. We stared at it because it looked like nothing we have ever seen before. It flew from the north to the south until it disappeared into the night horizon. We were puzzled because it definitely was not a helicopter, or a plane. Immediately after it disappeared, and during our discussion of what it could be, another orange orb originated from the same place. We watched the first one come from and it took the same exact flight route immediately above us. For this orb I quickly reached for my cell phone and began snapping away pictures (I will follow up with an email including all pictures I took). Again, as soon as the 2nd orb disappeared, the 3rd orange orb began its trip. It also took the same route as the first two orbs and disappeared into the night's horizon. I also took a few pictures of the 3rd orb. My parents and I s! tayed for a few minutes outside searching the sky for more, but did not see any more. Curiously enough, the pictures do not all reflect what we saw with the naked eye. Also note that some of the pictures I tried using the zoom feature. And lastly, the orbs made absolutely no noise as they passed directly above us. The other two witnesses were my retired parents. I happened to have my cat on a leash with us, but he did not see it nor did he act unusual. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) Addendum to Miami 11/27/14 10:35 pm Event-- NO LONGER A UFO. ADDENDUM to UFO Sighting on Thanksgiving Night In MIami 11/27/14. I am the person who filed this report originally. I am letting you know that we have discovered what the UFO's were, so they are no longer UFO's. I wonder if similar reports like mine could possibly be the same as what our UFO's turned out to be. By the way.... Our orbs were Chinese floating paper lanterns! LOL... They may come in white or in several different colors. I have since ordered some off eBay and we are going to light and release some as soon as they arrive, so that others can freak out the way we did when we saw them. Lol. God bless! ((END ADDENDUM))
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #115661). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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