NUFORC Sighting 149377

Occurred: 2019-09-29 15:34 Local
Reported: 2019-10-01 01:01 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Huntington, WV, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

UFO not visible to naked eye

While boating on the Ohio river, I noticed what I will call an atmospheric anomaly. My adult kids and grandkids were all present. A thin, high altitude cloud shimmering with the violet wavelengths, pinks, purple and blues. I pointed it out to everyone and passed my sunglasses around to kids. The sunglasses made the colors much more visible and I most likely would not have even noticed it without them. It was quite beautiful and something that I had never seen. My kids described it as being "really cool". I wanted to photograph it, but being so close to the sun I doubted I would be able to capture all the colors. I decided to hold my sunglasses in front of the camera lens on my iPhone. I snapped two pics, perhaps 15 to 30 seconds apart. A while later I decided to look at the pics and that's when I noticed the brighter circular object within the cloud. I know I must have looked at that cloud for 2 or 3 minutes as we floated down the river. I can say with all certainty that the object was not visible to the naked or sunglassed eye. Today I applied a couple different filters that come with the phone. If u look closely to the left of the orb, it seams like there is a shockwave. In the second pic the object has dropped down a good bit and there doesn't seam to be much going on. I figured the cloud to just be filled with ice particles and catching the suns rays just right. The orb thing does however have me dumbfounded and why couldn't I see it? Makes me wonder how much I don't see. I did take a couple more pics the next day, trying to replicate conditions as much as possible. I used the same sunglasses to determine if there might possibly be a flaw in the glass that would account for the anomaly but I was able to pretty much rule that out. Any ideas?

Posted 2019-10-04