Sphere over Aliso Viejo, CA

The report, as filed

I drive a patrol car for a securiry company, graveyard shift. I was pulling into one of the communities that I hit everynight, and it's located on the side of a hill that overlooks a valley to the hills by San Juan Capistrano. That's where I saw 3 dark orange lights that almost looked like they were on fire. I see that hill across the Valley every night and thought rhat the lights looked way too big, and that I never saw them before and thats when out of nowhere 3 more just descend from above out the black of night looked like fireballs coming down to the earth when they suddenly stopped directly above the original 3. There was a group of about 4 or 5 kids at a park bench about 40 yarda away from me that couldn't stop watching this either the lights just floated there for a minute and then started spreading out towards the ocean. I lost track of 4 of them, but 2 stayed in the first location for about 30 minutes

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133125). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.