Sphere over Medford, NJ
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Appearing almost due north, it at first seemed to be a bright star or planet but when it moved away was apparently a plane, but it moved from northwest to west and stopped, hovering in the west, opposite where the moon should be at 288 degrees east (so it wasn't the moon). It grew larger and brighter until it seemed as if it might come almost directly towards us and was visibly a sphere of some sort, and then, when we looked down to take a picture, vanished without warning. The sky was empty except for a few planes much farther away.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #128196). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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