NUFORC UFO Sighting 183855

Occurred: 2024-11-04 21:40 Local
Reported: 2024-11-04 19:01 Pacific
Duration: 15 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Hilton Head Island, SC, USA
Location details: In the southern sky

Shape: Changing
Color: Orange
Estimated Size: Maybe a 100 feet in diameter
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: South south east
Angle of Elevation: 49
Heading: East
Closest Distance: Far. Maybe 20,000 feet or more
Estimated Speed: 800 mph or so?
Explanation: Chinese Lantern - Possible
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

Saw an orange, shimmering, shifting, maybe even gaseous, ball of light traveling across the sky.

The object was very high in the sky, but was much larger than a blinking light on a plane. In fact, you could have fit 15 or 20 of those lights inside of it. It was orange and constantly shifting but still maintaining a circular ball shape. Certain points of it seemed to almost be so bright that it was like reflecting the sun, but it was dark with no other light sources. It was floating across the sky, again, at an extremely high altitude, and I ran inside to get my phone and it was gone by the time I got back outside. I’ve seen satellites, weird reflective clouds, and all sorts of things, but this was amazing. I’m hoping someone else saw it and got a video. I’ve never seen anything remotely like it in my 50 years of living. After staring at the sky for a few minutes to see if it would return, I noticed a plane flying along the exact same course

Posted 2024-11-08