Changing over Thousand oaks, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
It bounced over the mountain like a super ball and followed the contour of the mountain and wobbled and stopped. It began approaching me and looked like a fiery plasma in the sky. I thought it was the back of a rocket but wondered how I could be seeing the back of a rocket get closer. It stopped very low and close and then suddenly became a glowing red almost burgandy sphere. It was a perfect ball. They it began moving toward the south and headed over the ocean. It went across the entire skyline within a minutes once it began moving. It was close and made no sound at all.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176592). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-08-28 → 2018-09-14