Sphere over Shell Beach, LA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On the of July 2nd 2021 while leaving Shell Beach Louisiana via the Mississippi River Gulf Outlet to begin a commercial fishing trip almost immediately rose out of the water in front of me what appeared to be a full moon orange reddish perfectly round mesmerised for a second or two I reached in my pocket to grab my cell phone turn on camera soon as I pointed it at the object it bursts a way at a great speed slowing down to maybe a hover started to Veer up and left and increased speed and look like it went off into the Stars and disappeared with no noise whatsoever it should have definitely made a boom what did not against shocked and what I just witnessed coming back to my senses look down at my cell phone and realized it had recorded everything I saw now making the decision not to go that way of course turned the vessel around and headed back to where I had came from when the boat got on a slide in front of me which is the opposite direction now or two more of the same exact objects one veering over Lake borgne looking to my left spotting the other which was a good ways further than the first observation determined to get closer I throttled up but it was to choppy and could not film and pilot The Vessel at that speed and both
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #166403). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2021-06-29 → 2021-07-16