Sphere over North Freedom, WI

The report, as filed

I noticed a light in the night sky much brighter than anything else. I originally thought it might be a planet but as I was watching it I noticed that it was moving in a very tight circle. It peaked my interest and I watched it move left to right, up and down and watched it shoot left and right confirming it wasn’t a satillite or space station. This is hard to explain but the effect of a normal street light or light bulb to the human eye causes a halo like effect. When observing the object I noticed that it had a halo like effect to it possibly because it was so bright that my phone camera could not capture. After extended time watching it move back and forth across the sky I noticed that the halo would form into a cone and change directions on its own which ive never seen before. At about 2 am the object “dimmed” or became so faint that it became identical to the stars around the object. So much so that I could not see it In my camera. Then about 5 min later it appeared again moving at a higher rate of speed and even brighter. I attempted to use a tree in my camera frame to use as a frame of reference for its movements but the quality just couldn’t capture the entirety of it. I’ve been looking at the night sky my entire life and I’ve never seen anything like it. I would also like to note that in this same area just before dusk I was on a bike ride with my wife two days ago 9/2/22 and we watched two red lights next to each other zoom across the sky and then just disappear with no jet sounds or anything in this same exact area that we have a video of as well. I was less certain of that sighting thinking it might be a jet or some kind of aircraft but there was no jet noise and there was no visible craft even though it was a very close distance just 2 red lights

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171565). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.