Circle over SAN JOSE, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
towards the soccer field (at my daughters soccer game). Still very small - looking like stars and hard for other people to see. It was hard for me to video or take photos because I couldn't see them on my phone - only with my eyes. They flew together and pretty much stopped at the soccer field. At one time I saw one fly sporadically - disappear - then reappear back next to the other one. They then floated towards the clouds and disappeared. After looking at my videos - I found them and zoomed in. What's weird about the photos is that there are weird spots all over the dots that I couldn't see with my eyes - only when zooming in on the screenshot photos. I was told they could be remnants of a weather balloon breaking. Thus, these being weather balloons. They just seemed to move strangely and didn't look like what I googled online for weather balloons. The way they moved - it was very controlled. But I guess balloons can be controlled? I'll attach my screen shots and my videos. Its really hard to locate them on the video without pausing it and making the images move manually. They are very very tiny. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176005). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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