NUFORC Sighting 148826

Occurred: 1996-09-05 22:30 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2019-09-13 00:27 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 10

Location: Blythe, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

A glowing orange sphere floats silently and slowly then shoots up at 45 degree angle faster than anything seen before.

About 25 miles North of Blythe, CA, my husband and I were at our vacation home on the Colorado River. My husband went out for a dune buggy ride with about eight friends at about 20:30. I stayed at our vacation home alone and fell asleep. At about 22:00 woke up and I walked outside to see if my husband had returned. As I turned around to walk inside a bright light caught my eye. Directly above the tree line across the street, less than 100 ft away and no more than 40ft in the air was a completely round sphere that glowed like a sodium vapor orange street light. The sphere was approximately 30ft in diameter. It floated silently about as fast as someone walking briskly parallel to the ground.

At first I thought it must be a weather balloon. I stood and watched it float down the road over some mobile homes, then suddenly it shot up at about a 45 degree angle at “warp” speed and disappeared in a second.

When my husband and his friends returned 20 minutes later, I described what I saw. They said they had all stopped their dune buggies on top of the hills overlooking our mobile home park and they all saw the same thing but from a distance of a half mile or so.

Posted 2019-09-19