Sphere over Lynn, MA
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The report, as filed
I was sitting on my porch and noticed a ball of light in the sky very bright yellow no other lights it seemed larger or it was flying very low. I don't live far from the ocean so believe it was flying over the ocean. It was flying slowly and then I noticed that a stream of light matching the color of the uap under the upa. Sort of like what one would see when looking at a fighter jet the fire coming out from the back. But this object had the jet stream coming from the bottom. Then I saw dissappear. No idea what I witnessed just hoping I can find answers thank you for this platform.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175035). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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