Sphere over Carson City, NV
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My neighbor (Jean Smith) and I were outside talking when a bright orb caught my eye. I immediately pointed it out to my neighbor and I began recording. This was not an airplane or satellite. The sky shows a couple airplanes far off in the distance. This craft wasn't binking nor was there any engine noise. It was moving in a smooth direction but every few seconds it would jerk. Almost looked like I was seeing a "glitch." Not like a anything I've ever seen. Just odd how it was rotating and moving. The craft was incredibly bright, it was oval shaped and was rotating, making it look round at first until you fixed your sight better on the object. I have two videos. I attempted to move myself to get a better view on the other side of the pine tree. I followed the object until it flew behind a nearby hill. I had another sighting in late November 2021 around 8:00pm. I again was talking outside with the same neighbor when I saw a green ball off light swoop down and vanish. I didn't know to report it. Tonight, she admitted, she also seen green orbs not long ago. Feel free to contact me if you should have any questions.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #170444). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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June 29, 2022 · 12:00 AM · OTHER
Carson City, NV
At the time of the sighting, I was living out of my car, parked outside of a friend's house. At night, I would often look up at the sky, for hours at times. This particular night, I was outside with three other friends, just talking and laughing. I look up and notice what I can only describe as an unknown flying object that appeared to be "swimming" across the sky. It was big, lengthy, and it had this Bioluminescent like blue to it. I immediately try to get the others to see it also, but they all seemed to either ignore me or not hear me calling for them. I called out for them again, and still nothing. At that point I looked back at the sky. There was something "calming" to it. It faded/disappeared into the night. Soon after, I went into my car to sleep. The following morning, I open my eyes to the sight of deer, across in the neighbors lawn. One in particular, was making eye contact before returning to eat from the lawn. That day was a very important day for me, and I had been anxious for this day to arrive for weeks. As for the sighting, I never mentioned it, in fact, this is the first time I'm sharing this story.
April 29, 2021 · 9:03 PM · CIRCLE
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April 28, 2021 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Carson City, NV
The craft was in the eastern sky of Carson City. Circular, bright lights.. spinning.. lights changed from white to red then green.. very bright. Myself along with my husband were watching this object for about 10 minutes when it completely disappeared in front of our eyes!
December 10, 2020 · 5:15 PM · LIGHT
Carson City, NV
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November 25, 2020 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Carson City, NV
We were driving on 5th St coming off of Fairview just as we got over the bridge just right after the old barn in the big field in the right of us there was a strange light in the sky just sort of hovering. It was not very big that we could tell and it seemed to be darker in color in the middle of it and then a sort of glow surrounding the glowing middle part. The middle was a sort of darkish orange yellow color and the soft glow on the outside was a bit lighter in color more of a yellowish tint. It just kind of hung there almost thought it was a street light, but no it wasn't because it just was hanging there kind of floating or hovering like moving slightly side to side but still remaining in one spot above the field. Unfortunately since we were driving, we could not say how long it had been there before we saw it, nor could we say how long it remained there either. It was a very beautiful soft glowing light. Hopefully will see it again one day!
April 29, 2020 · 12:45 AM · SPHERE
Carson City, NV
I was laying in my bed at approximately 00:45 on April 29th 2020 when something caught my eye in my backyard in Carson City, NV. The area I live in is a very quiet and dark neighborhood so any kind of unusual activity is quickly noticed. What drew my attention was the fact that I had just heard some kind of aircraft over head but couldn't tell what it was because I had music playing so I figured it was just a jet or airplane but then I noticed lights flashing in the backyard. This is NOT normal at all in my area and if I see lights at all it is because someone is here . Also my neighbor has censor activated lights that turn on when someone is up very close to the property but they did not light up and that is why I got out of bed and shut the music off because I saw lights in my yard and the neighbors but the censor lights had not been activated. I shut off the music and started to go towards the door in my backyard. I noticed that the frogs and crickets suddenly went silent and I got goosebumps on my arms. I was trying to look up at the sky because I saw what at first I thought was a star but that it was very bright and seemed to be moving rather erratically and in a jumpy and unusual pattern. I know for a fact that it was not an airplane because of the way it moved from side to side, it couldn't have been a helicopter because it was completely quiet and so much that even the frogs and crickets had stopped so it was complete silence . I also thought for a brief moment that it could possibly be a drone because they are common now in society as well but I can and have heard drones before and it was silent and the light emitting off this thing was far more powerful than even an airplane and looked bright enough to be a star. It danced above me in the sky for about 10 minutes and then flashed across the sky towards the North so I know that it couldn't have been a drone either because of the speed that it went and there fact that it! was up so high. I came back inside trying to grasp what I had! just se en and to ask my partner what he thought as well because I had alerted him to the lights and he was watching from back in the bedroom. He was quite shaken up as well and said that he couldn't identify the object either because like me he said that it was no airplane he had ever seen, he heard no noise as well and he noticed the frogs and crickets stopping also, and he said that it was too high and too large to be a drone. We sat in bed and were discussing what we had just seen when I noticed another flash up in the sky. I looked up and very very high in the sky I could see what at first I thought was three stars, but that they were moving as well. There was three lights that were at an angle in the sky that made a perfect line but the three star looking lights were moving up and down very very slowly like as if something was hovering. I started to think I was losing my mind or that I was going crazy but I asked my partner if he noticed or saw anything unusual in the general ! area I was seeing this and he confirmed that I wasn't seeing things because he said the exact same thing that he noticed that there appeared to be three diagonally aligned stars slowly hovering back and forth very high up in the sky. We watched for about 10 minutes and then they were just gone and the frogs started to croak again and the crickets started up again. It was very creepy and unusual at the very least and neither one of us could figure it out. I tried to search for anything weird happening in the skies in our town and near by towns that following morning but there appeared to be nothing about it in any of the news feeds that I searched in and then that is when I stumbled across this website so I decided to give my account in hopes that I wasn't the only one besides my partner in the town to observe this strange event.