Sphere over Woodford, VA

The report, as filed

Just to add a little context, we live in the middle of an old corn field, surrounded by other cornfields. Very rural. Pic is taken from my back porch, camera facing east. The only cities are north (Fredericksburg VA approximately 20 mi) and south (Richmond VA approximately 40 mi). I reside in Woodford VA, which is in the county of Caroline. There's an army base (fort ap hill) in bowling green va. But that's west of my house. Around 20 mi or so. The camera is facing Spotsylvania, Louisa, ect. All rural areas and to the east. We do get commercial flights that fly over, but they always fly at very high altitudes. I can't think of any commercial airports that are within 50-60 miles of us. And none in that direction. Closest are Richmond and DC ( north and south). There were commercial aircraft in the sky, but I did not notice any craft racing towards it or anything trying to "investigate". I have to note that the picture is exactly as it was taken on my phone. HOWEVER I think my phone did like an auto adjust/ focus. The reason I say that is this was taken somewhere around 10-1030 pm. The sky was much darker and the orbs/lights were dimmer….or more faint. So the camera kind of amplified everything. On the bottom pattern, the image makes it appear as though it could be a spot light of some sort (which it def could be) but in person It looked as though the lights were shining downward. The top row of lights didn't appear to have any sort of beam. The objects weren't racing around the sky. In fact, they initially appeared as though they weren't moving at all. However over the course of about 5-10 mins the pattern did change. They almost lined up parallel..but then the bottom row became almost one with the top. When the pattern of light was disappearing, they appeared to vanish upward. Or so it appeared that way. One last note. In today's local newspaper, there was an article about UFOs in Virginia. [NUFORC annotation: Searchlight - Probable]

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #176502). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.