Sphere over Jefferson City, MO
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The report, as filed
This was an evening that both Venus and Jupiter could be easily seen. My son and I were outside observing this when we noticed a luminous round object. This object was moving, it disappear and reappear it would also hover and then move erratically. We watched this for several minutes before my son started to record this on his phone.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177240). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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