Sphere over Death valley national park, CA
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
I have seen starlink before around last year (2022) and this did not look like it at all, the lights or "orbs" kind of shuttered across the sky one after each other and they just appeared out of nowhere about 10 or 15 of them and me and my mom both tried to take several pictures of the event and neither of us could get a clear photo I took a video and my camera couldn't focus on them but the orbs were very bright (less then starlink) and then they disappeared just as fast as they appeared. Nothing in photos.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176096). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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