Sphere over Ballston, NY

The report, as filed

At approximately 8:30 pm on October third, 2020, while sitting by a fire and looking at the stars, four of my friends and I witnessed a moving object of solid white light, in the clear sky. This ball of light had a starting position at the bottom of the Big Dipper constellation, and then began to accelerate and head east at an initially slow speed, and then quite fast. We captured several video recordings of the object and in the videos you can see it moving past stars in the sky at enormous speed. You can also see the object "jump" from one position to another in a way that cannot be accomplished by human vehicles. As the object continued east it appeared to have gotten closer to us, and eventually flew over our heads (while still at a considerable distance away from us), and kept going generally east. Once it had passed us and there was some distance between us and the object, it gradually faded out, and entirely disappeared. We also have video e! vidence of the object fading away. It was almost as if a star decided to get up, fly across the sky, and then fade away gracefully. There were a total of five witnesses to this event, two of us independently recorded it on our cell phones.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159742). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.