Sphere over Rogers County, OK
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Date: Sunday, April 2, 2017, 9:53 pm Location: 7 miles northeast of Claremore, Oklahoma. Clearing in a wooded area, closest dwelling 200 yards. GPS coordinates: N 36.21.xxx W 095.32.xxx Elev. 6xx Temperature: 54 degrees F Duration: 9 seconds Captured on video by a game camera. Video file available, 56.8 mb The orb is a round spot of light, at first hovering in the upper left area of the frame, then moving toward and under the camera. At the end of the video, another orb, or maybe the same one, appears to shoot across the upper right corner of the frame. The only thing unusual about the location is that it is on an easement for an interstate communications cable. In 2002, AT&T removed the old lead-shielded wire cable, and replaced it with six 2" dia. pvc conduits for fiber optic cables. There are no electromagnetic fields anywhere around the easement. This is the only encounter I have had, in over 15 years of capturing video of animals on my property.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #133450). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-03-30 → 2017-04-16