Sphere over Collinsville, CT
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
First I need to preface this with the following statement; I don't think that we should all be naive enough to think that we're the only life in the known universe, but I certainly don't believe every alien story ever told. I think most of those people were drunk, stoned, or just attention seekers. I'm reporting this not as a function of attention seeking or to feed the fire of mass hysteria, but because I genuinely saw something I cannot logically or definitively explain. It was the night of the 2015 Supermoon and I was driving home from a family members residence in Norfolk. I was watching the sky the whole time but when I was driving through Collinsville, just before I got to the bridge, I saw two dark orange orbs in the sky. Size wise they were much smaller than the moon but much larger than a star. If the moon was a basketball, these would be golf ball size. I cannot believe I'm even typing these words but it looked like they were just flying around, maybe looking for something.. I could come up with a million conspiracy theories, but that's just what they would be.. Theories... No proof of anything. I did Google some orb experiences from the Supermoon night and there's some video on YouTube showing a light. I don't know if it's what I saw but if he's in the same area then it could be. There were people on the bridge when I was driving home, so they may have seen it as well.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #122549). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2015-09-24 → 2015-10-11
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January 30, 2023 · 5:13 PM · LIGHT
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Driving along River Rd. Passenger in my vehicle pointed out glowing orange object in sky during daytime. Neither of us had seen something like this before. Looked like a bright orange sphere with two tails pointed vertical. It was just hovering in one area. I tried to take a picture but it wouldn’t capture on phone. I drove off so not sure how long it remained. I haven’t seen it since.
December 4, 2021 · 6:00 PM · OTHER
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April 20, 2020 · 9:15 PM · CIRCLE
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