Sphere over Hales Corners, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On 1 OCT 22 at 19:45 I just finished cleaning and organizing my workshop in my garage. As I often do, I looked up into the sky and saw Jupiter in the East, Vega straight up and then stood behind some spots on my sidewalk I use to find Polaris after lining them up. After spotting Polaris, I see an object off to the left (West). At first I thought it was an aircraft. I squinted looking for running lights and couldn’t see them. I then noticed that this object was brighter than Jupiter and there was no sound coming from it. I took my cell phone from my pocket to record a video. About 10 seconds into it I realized I didn’t click “record” and finally did. I zoomed in a bit soon after that. Figuring I had recorded enough, I stopped and put my cellphone in my pocket and decided to watch it to the vanishing point. I was also thinking I wanted to compare Jupiter to this thing. So, after those couple seconds, I look toward the East expecting to see 2 bright lights (Jupiter and this thing) but it was gone. Only Jupiter was there. This object should have been visible. It was well above the horizon Eastbound and should have been there when I looked back. This might not be important but I saw a small private airplane directly overhead going from South to North at about 1000 feet (?). The engine could easily be heard. I will attach the video and a screen grab with adjusted contrast, brightness and etc. Not that it matters, I am a retired Naval Officer.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #172146). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2022-09-28 → 2022-10-15
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