Sphere over Willis, VA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I thought maybe it was a floating balloon until suddenly it move to the right of me and up and out of my view. There were other planes in the sky here as usual but this object looked drastically different from what I'm used to seeing. I tried to yell for my family to come and see this object but that's when it moved away and out of view. It turned into a red color before it disappeared.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #174887). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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