Sphere over La Canada, CA
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The report, as filed
I was out hiking and came to a bench and sat down. A shadow passed over me from a Red Tailed Hawk that was flying. The Hawk was near the sun and I stood up to photograph it with my cell phone camera a Samsung Galaxy 5s. With the Hawk near the sun, it makes for a good picture showing the colors of the Hawk really well.I was holding the camera out away from me arms length. I Noticed A LIGHT IN the picture and figured it was sun light because I was taking pictures with the sun in them. When I brought the camera down to view my shots there was a sphere in the background in some of my shots. It was white and had brighter dots of raised lights that changed patterns seemed to rotate from top to bottom I have 6 or 7 very clear pictures of it. I was standing a 1/2 mile away to the south from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in LA Canada California.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #116438). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-12-24 → 2015-01-10
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