NUFORC Sighting 44459

Occurred: 2005-06-17 23:00 Local
Reported: 2005-06-18 23:50 Pacific
Duration: 10 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Modesto, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere


Orange translucent sphere's traveling at high speed just below the clouds in the direction of 135 degrees SE.

Sitting outside in a chair on my pateo, I was gazing up at the sky. I was on the tail end of a cloudy sky (above me and to the East were clouds, a clear sky coming in from the west).

Directly over my head, I saw a sphere moving under the clouds horizontal to the earth. The sphere was a translucent orange. I stood up immediately wondering what it was. My first thought was that some kid must have lost a balloon, but soon realized the object was traveling far too fast and in a strait line. I later determined with a compass it was traveling in the direction of 135 degrees SE. I watched it until it faded out of site on the far side of the horizon which took only a few seconds. I could see other planes in the sky at various altitudes. All were much slower than the sphere. It must have been traveling at a very high rate of speed.

I stood out there on the patio trying to figure out what I had just witnessed and continued gazing up in the sky (this time looking for orange'ish spheres). About 5 minutes after the first sphere, a 2nd sphere was spotted. This sphere was not directing overhead, but a distance to my East (maybe a mile). It also was traveling in the same direction as the first sphere and at the same apparent speed (same color). There was no sound at all.

I continued looking up in the sky for the next hour, but no other sphere was seen. This is the first time I've ever witnessed anything like this. Wouldn't believe it if I had not seen it for myself.

These sphere's were definately "not" man-made. They were almost like an orange plasma ball of some type, except they traveled at a high rate of speed as though they had a distination.

I'm still trying to figure out what they might have been. I have no clue.



Posted 2005-06-20

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