Sphere over Douglasville, GA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was outside in my backyard taking my dogs out, and I noticed in the distance a light that didn't look like a star. It was around dusk, so the first thing that came to mind was that it was Venus, or Mars. I couldn't tell how far away, or high up in the sky it was at this point, but it seemed to be pretty far up in the sky. Then, I noticed it moving towards my house. It was slow moving, and it got closer, and it was in the left corner of my backyard. It was an orb that was pulsating blue, green, and reddish-orange lights. It hovered in that location for several minutes. I kept wondering if it was a helicopter, or maybe even a drone, but the lights didn't flash or blink like any aircraft that I've seen. At this point, I'm not sure how high in the sky it was, but I want to think it was at least at the height where you can see commercial jets clearly. I lived near Hartsfield Atlanta airport, so I see jets all the time. A few minutes pass, and I notice that an airliner was traveling into the path of this orb, and I thought "oh no, they're going to crash into it". But just before the airliner came in contact, the orb moved out of the way. After the orb moved, it then started to move away (not sure of the direction) and it moved slowly until I couldn't see it anymore because of the trees.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171148). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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