NUFORC Sighting 180345

Occurred: 2024-02-09 17:30 Local
Reported: 2024-02-09 19:33 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Atascadero, CA, USA

Shape: Sphere
Color: Dark brown/gray
Estimated Size: 10+ feet diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: 60 to 120
Angle of Elevation: 89
Closest Distance: 1/2 mile?
Estimated Speed: 50 to 100 mph

Watched the sphere travel east to west against the prevailing wind without sound observed through binoculars.

Sitting in the hot tub with my wife I spotted a conspicuous high flying sphere traveling silently upwind east to west. It required binoculars to observe the sphere shape, better details were not clear. I am an experienced birder so this was not like anything I have ever seen in my life. Not a balloon traveling against the prevailing wind.

Posted 2024-02-15