Sphere over Fort worth, TX
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I was in my backyard checking whatever turned to look into the night sky and see a light blue what I thought was a comet falling from the sky. It started turning and dimmed down to an orb. I believed it was a aircraft possibly but others flew past it with its lights on and this didn't have any besides glowing one color. I was a watch stander in the Navy and seen enough night time flights to know a plane and heli.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #177770). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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