NUFORC Sighting 175440

Occurred: 2021-05-21 16:40 Local
Reported: 2023-04-21 15:13 Pacific
Duration: A few seconds


Location: Not sure (was in airplane), , Unspecified
Location details: I was in a window seat on AA flight 685 about 20 min prior to landing at DCA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aircraft nearby

A spinning silverish sphere passed under my aircraft at high rate of speed, saw out window.

My flight 5/21/2021: American Airlines PHX- DCA, seat 23A (window seat left side of plane). About 20 min out from landing at DCA I saw a silverish sphere pass under our aircraft at a high rate of speed. Looked like it came at us from the opposite direction from right front of aircraft and passed under us and my wing at a diagonal. The sphere was spinning as it traveled and seemed metallic as sun glinted off it. Perhaps the size of a bowling ball (or like the Quiddich ball on Harry Potter, but not gold). I don’t know if anyone else saw, my companion was sleeping. I reported to the flight attendants when we landed a few min later. I think they pegged me as crazy. It looked a lot like the sphere in video footage released on the news today (4/21/23) over a Mid East war zone, maybe Mosul (think footage was a few years old).

Posted 2023-05-19

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