Sphere over New Braunfels, WI
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
On the evening of October 9th at about 8:52 PM I was walking across the tennis courts to my room when I noticed a bright reddish orb silently approaching from the east horizon. At first I thought it was a plane but it didn’t seem quite right so I took out my iPhone 13 and began recording as the orb crossed over head towards the south west horizon below the cloud cover of night. At some point in the video I zoom in. It took about two minutes for the object to cross the entire east to SW horizons before it was completely gone and out of sight. The flight pattern did not appear to be entirely straight either. At times it appeared as if the object took a “C” or “S” pattern as it traveled across the sky. I noticed this before I started filming and it shows a little bit of its pattern in the recording as well. I filmed for about 1 1/2 minutes before setting the phone down to watch the orb disappear in the SW horizon. If this is a UFO sighting it would be my first. I am 39 years old. As I watched the orb silently cross the sky, I was filled with curiosity for what it is.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #178922). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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