NUFORC Sighting 178440

Occurred: 2023-09-13 19:04 Local
Reported: 2023-09-22 20:35 Pacific
Duration: 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Pewaukee, WI, USA
Location details: The UAP was due west of me an estimated mile away from where I took the photo

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

Was driving in my neighborhood and saw an extraordinarily dark cloud above the setting sun and saw a bright object appear to drop fast

I was driving north in our subdivision on Millridge Cir, in the Town of Delafield, WI, when I saw a very bright object appear out of an extraordinarily dark-reddish cloud deck above the setting sun.

I immediately pulled my vehicle off the road and jumped out to take a picture. I only got one picture but it was a “live” picture on my I-Phone 14 Pro, which has a fairly good resolution. After taking the picture, I looked down to see what I captured and then no longer saw the object.

When I got home, just two blocks from where I took the photo, I told my wife I think I just took a picture of a UFO because I thought I saw this object move unlike a plane or helicopter and without any sound.

I gave my wife the phone and she immediately zoomed in on the object and exclaimed that it didn’t look like anything she had ever seen flying in the sky

When we looked at the “live” picture, the object appeared to make an almost instantaneous V maneuver, dropping and then rising across an unknown distance

If the “live” picture accurately captured how the object actually moved and it wasn’t a photo artifact or from me possibly moving, it would defy any traditional plane or helicopter movement pattern or speed.

This object appeared to be circular with the upper half grayish and divided by a darker band. The lower half appeared to be a distinctively arranged pattern or grouping of 11 or perhaps more, highly intense lights.

I initially thought that this object may have been a mile or possibly more, west of where I took the picture, but the level of detail captured by my I Phone photograph, likely belied my initial estimate of the distance, unless this aerial anomaly was incredibly large.

I called a local news station and the county police to report what I saw but the news station showed no interest and the county sheriff said that if the object was no longer there and there was no immediate threat to the community, there was nothing they would do

I tried to report this to NASA, but they are evidently only taking reports from military/government employees or pilots

Posted 2023-10-28