Sphere over Philadelphia, MS
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On 9/07/2018, I was standing in my yard. I was feeding my dogs, when I looked up and saw a bright object that I could not identify. I know it wasn’t a aircraft. The object was probably 1500-2000 feet. The object was bright white moving fast from south to north, around 10:00pm the object was not blinking. You could see normal aircraft flying with the red and green lights around their normal cruising altitude. It was probably visible for about ten minutes.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #143087). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-09-04 → 2018-09-21
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