Sphere over Houston, MS

The report, as filed

On Sunday, August 2nd of 2020 my wife and I had just returned home from visiting friends in our Jeep. We were putting the doors and top back on the jeep when I noticed an object giving off light moving from the northwest at a decent speed. The object was silent as it moved across the sky and the reddish orange light it gave off did not pulse. It became stationary due West of my location at approximately 45 to 60 degrees above the horizon. After a short time of being stationary, the object emitted a bluish object or beam downward at an angle of approximately 20 degrees to the North which was moving at an extreme rate of speed similar to a shooting star but it was much tighter focused and did not burn out. Shortly after the object emitted the beam, a slightly larger bluish beam shot up toward the object from the south at an angle of approximately 75 degrees just missing it. The object made no effort to move or avoid the incoming object. After a short while another object passed below my line of sight of the original object. It moved horizontally as a fast moving beam of red light. The original object remained in the sky as if just another star in the sky for the remainder of my viewing. It was getting late at this point and I returned indoors.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #158230). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.