NUFORC Sighting 164389

Occurred: 2021-07-04 22:00 Local
Reported: 2021-08-18 18:54 Pacific
Duration: at least 4 hours
No of observers: 1

Location: Peyton, CO, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Bright cloud-emitting orb seen for over 4 hours in Colorado

At approximately 22:00 on 7/04/21, from a location 10 miles south of Peyton CO, I observed, in the southwestern (essentially cloudless) sky at about 60 degrees elevation, a bright apparently spherical object, glowing at about minus 3 (-3) magnitude. The object alternately hovered and moved quickly in various directions, but stayed within about a 10 degree circle for at least FOUR HOURS. The accompanying video shows smoke-like emissions surrounding the object.

I am both a professional (having taught college astronomy) and also an amateur astronomer, and have spent many hundreds of hours looking at the night sky. This is not any sort of astronomical phenomenon.

Posted 2021-08-20