Sphere over Pilot Rock, OR
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At 22:20, 07.19.2018 a friend and I were standing in my front yard, when I looked up and saw a single red glowing orb traversing the sky in a NNE direction. It appeared maybe to be at 2,000 to 3,000 feet up, moving at 100 to 150 mph. We watched this go straight for several minutes until it faded out of view. It changed direction slightly with a right/left turn, but continued on in its original direction. As we were discussing what we had seen, another red orb appeared 11 minutes later. This one was much higher (30,000 to 40,000 feet) and going much faster, twice as fast as a high-altitude airliner, and going in an ENE direction. Again, we watched this until it faded from view over the horizon. They didn't appear to HAVE lights on them...they WERE their own lights, glowing.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #142338). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-07-16 → 2018-08-02
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