Sphere over Poughkeepsie, CT

The report, as filed

3 of us were eating lunch on a curb, I saw what I thought was a white ballon very high in sky. I pointed out to the 2 guys with me, after 5 min of debate, a cloud passed n front of the object which wasn’t moving, the white object appeared to turn black or grey in the cloud, then bright white like a star in the day once the cloud passed. At that point 3 women walked out of an adjacent pharmacy. I asked them as they passed us if they could first see the “day star” then If they could identify it,... no one could explain it away. Another construction worker passed, we showed him, he pointed out,with polarized lenses, there appeared to be a purplish ring around object. We had to unfortunately return to work at that point, after taking 2 short videos with my iPhone The weather this day was partly cloudy/mostly sunny. 80 degrees, 38% humidity- Object never moved, only got blurry, and brighter then clear.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #157047). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.