NUFORC Sighting 119175

Occurred: 2014-10-15 14:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2015-05-26 23:32 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Jacksonville, FL, USA

Shape: Sphere


Smooth silver sphere in cloudless blue sky hovering at about 300 feet

On a cloudless day, in the middle of the afternoon, I was in the backyard of my in-laws house by the pool, talking to my husband who was about 40 feet away in the yard. I looked up to admire the sky and was surprised to see a silver sphere sitting stationary in the sky about 390 feet above me. It was shiny silver, looked like a pinball from a pinball machine except it was a brighter metal, like silver.

I could not discern any movement at all as I watched it, saw nothing that appeared to anchor it, saw no exhaust, etc. It was fascinating.

Having grown up with access to a naval base, I am familiar with military craft, and this was nothing like an aircraft. It also did not resemble any craft I have seen out of NASA, and did not resemble a balloon, blimp, or any other known craft I could think of. If anything, I thought maybe it was a new type of drone, but I haven't seen a military or civilian one that was a perfect sphere like this was.

I turned to call my husband! so he could witness it and when I looked back up maybe a second later it had vanished. No contrail, no clouds to disappear into, fairly open horizon, and I searched the sky trying to locate it again, but it was nowhere to be seen. I have never seen a plane vanish that quickly.

It made no sound, I observed no lights or color changes, may have had a slight haze around it, but if so it was so minor it caused little to no distortion of the craft or air surrounding it. I did not feel threatened by it, more surprised and curious.

There had been a plane that passed by at a much higher altitude and at a different point in the sky several minutes earlier, but it and its contrails were already gone, and I saw one or two several minutes later, and the were also at higher attitudes at different points and had contrails.

Date and time of day are not exact because I didn't report it right away. We were not using electronics so observed no issues with them.




NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD


Posted 2015-05-29

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