Location of Sighting: South Gate, California
Date of Sighting: February 14, 2016
Time of Sighting: 2 PM PST
View Video & Analysis Posted on YouTube by Witness:
Description: This is my luck. This perfectly round orb came around 3 times. The final time, I decided to shut things down and an small orb came into the picture. Here is the breakdown. Amazing capture at an amazing event. This is one of several crazy things that showed up. This is one of many this day. the orb flyby captured with a telescope. I almost missed this one by mistake.
Note: The large object appears to be a balloon. However, it is not a weather balloon as there is no “tether.” Also weather balloons would not be in the sky at the time of the sighting. The dense spot on the bottom of the object is an identifier that the object is an inflated balloon. It is difficult to say what the “flyby” object could be?
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Yes, I agree this to be a balloon. The flyby object could be anything like garbage picked up by a thermal or in some locations fluff from a Cotton Wood tree. The sphere is the most commonly seen UFO, but hard many times to distinguish from balloons. My sky watch experience (10+ years) with spheres and many other UFO shapes like saucers has them single and sometimes in clusters just like balloons. You know you have a UFO if individual spheres are released and move far away from the release point or smaller sized objects are released out the bottom. Sometimes you may see what appears to be a thin thread like spider thread attached to the main object and the released object that stretches out for a very long distance between the release. I speculate that this thread material is the infamous “angel hair” released by some UFO’s. I have captured this many times on video.
It really helps to have good equipment like a telescope with video attached, stable mount and good control for the long distance shots. I have a good camcorder handy for the close encounters. And be prepared to spend hours, days, weeks, months, years watching and waiting . But when you become addicted to UFO’s like I am it doesn’t matter. It also helps to be in a location where UFO’s are frequent.