Circle over Lutz, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I happened to look up in the sky when I noticed the sun reflecting off what I assumed was a plane. I noticed immediately that object was a sphere and just hovering/floating. I watched it for about a minute and then it was gone. While I was watching it - it started to fade away into the blue sky but didn’t appear to move.. almost like camouflage or cloaking/invisibility. As I was watching it fade from solid silver object to it almost looked blurred haze around it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #159999). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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