Sphere over Peyton, CO
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At approximately 22:00 on 7/04/21, from a location 10 miles south of Peyton CO, I observed, in the southwestern (essentially cloudless) sky at about 60 degrees elevation, a bright apparently spherical object, glowing at about minus 3 (-3) magnitude. The object alternately hovered and moved quickly in various directions, but stayed within about a 10 degree circle for at least FOUR HOURS. The accompanying video shows smoke-like emissions surrounding the object. I am both a professional (having taught college astronomy) and also an amateur astronomer, and have spent many hundreds of hours looking at the night sky. This is not any sort of astronomical phenomenon.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #164389). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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