Sphere over Dateland, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At around 6:40 pm I noticed a huge glowing orange orb, but I didn’t think anything of it. Then a few minutes later the orb got bigger and bigger until it looked as if it exploded into a bunch of mini orange orbs, I thought it was some sort of meteor. Then, the orbs went back to form one huge orb. For an hour they would disappear and reappear randomly and quickly while also changing sizes. At about 8:00 pm I was still seeing these objects so I decided to pull over and get out of my car to get a better video of them. They were moving in ways I have never seen an object move before. The location was along the 8 freeway in the middle of nowhere.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #179182). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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