NUFORC Sighting 173770

Occurred: 2023-01-05 19:45 Local
Reported: 2023-01-06 17:56 Pacific
Duration: > 2 hrs.
No of observers: 2

Location: Crofton/ Gambrills, MD, USA
Location details: eastern sky, off Rt. 3, could see from parking spot behind Outback Steakhouse at Waugh Chapel

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Colo

It was a sphere shaped object with jagged edges the remained in place, but changed colors.

I am a retire firefighter. I was sitting in my vehicle at a parking lot looking up at the sky, as I do on nights when it is clear, and I noticed an object in the sky that seemed to be changing colors. With the naked eye, the object was about a quarter inch in diameter. It wasn’t the typical lights of an aircraft. It was stationary, so I got my small camera and tried to zoom in on the object. It appeared, through the viewfinder, to be a sphere, but it was shaggy looking on the edges and it seemed to have divots in it. While snapping pictures, I saw blue, and then blue and orange, and after that, purple (see photos). The object wasn’t high enough in the sky to be a star but too high to be an attachment to a tower. There were airplanes coming toward me to eventually land in a Baltimore airport, but this was much higher than they were. I am curious to find out if this is manmade or otherwise.
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Posted 2023-03-06