As reported

Sphere over Wayland, MI

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The report, as filed

Just after 10pm Thursday night December 16th 2021, I was watching TV as usual and a light caught my attention in the southern window/door of my home looking over my back yard. I had seen the same thing about 2 or 3 nights earlier but didnt get up to check it out because it disappeared fairly quickly and i assumed it was just a plane. But this time i grabbed my cell phone and very quickly went to the window/door which was about 30 feet away from me and started filming the object (Pardon my swearing in the video, i was startled a little). It was amber in color and constantly fading and getting brighter frequently. It appeared to be a 1/2 mile to 1 mile south of the City over the cemetery or possibly the small lake which was a little further away. But it appeared to be no further than a mile away at the most. It was hard to tell. I have NEVER seen anything like this before. And it must have been getting very bright in order for it to catch my attention through a window that was 30 feet away while watching TV in another room. I filmed it for about 51 seconds before i couldnt see it any longer. See attached video. I was also able to go through the video frame by frame afterwards and zoom in on the object and took several screens shots of the object while zooming in on my Iphone 8 plus. Im going to ask around and see if anyone else has seen the object over the next few days. I have submitted the actual video just now, AND the" zoomed in" images that i took screen shots of afterwards while viewing the video frame by frame myself to make sense of what i saw. Thank you

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165898). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.

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