Sphere over Bayville, NY
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I went out side on my mother deck to have a cigarette. I happened to look up facing southwest. There was a yellow, almost sun like color object, it was like an orb hovering about 2,000 feet. As soon as I noticed it started to move very erratically, bouncing up and down while moving towards the northwest at a slow rate. It started dropping what appeared a sparks or something that looked like liquid metal on fire, same color as the craft. The debris glowed for a few seconds and then went out. It then stopped and it took off in a straight line at an incredible speed, so fast that it appeared as a line towards the northwest.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #149547). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2019-09-04 → 2019-09-21
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