In July 2025, at approximately 2100 local time in the northeastern United States, an eyewitness observed an intense bright light in their backyard as they parked their car upon returning home from work. The light was hovering approximately 25 feet off the ground, below a tree line near the center of their backyard, at an estimated distance of 90 feet. The eyewitness exited their vehicle briefly before retrieving their phone to record the event.
The spouse of the eyewitness came outside to assess the situation. The spouse also witnessed the light, describing it as a "brilliant red sphere" about one meter in diameter. The center of the red sphere appeared to be a white plasma "sun" about the size of a basketball. The orb slowly rose and moved to the left, and both eyewitnesses observed a second, identical orb, hovering above the other orb. The eyewitness then began recording the event using an iPhone 14 Pro Max.
As the eyewitness began recording, the orbs moved westward together above a nearby tree line. The witnesses described the orbs' motion as silent and smooth, moving in tandem as though they were flying in formation or tethered together. As the orbs moved out of sight, both eyewitnesses saw them appear to merge. The eyewitnesses estimated that the orbs moved from their initial position before disappearing from view at an estimated distance of 75 yards.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened an investigation following receipt of video footage and first-hand narratives from both eyewitnesses. FBI special agents conducted interviews, documented as FD-302-67 and FD-302-71, recording the witnesses' accounts of the incident. The footage was subsequently analyzed and authenticated by the U.S. Government.
The FBI assesses the individuals who reported this event as credible. This observation occurred within 25 miles of the "Triangle Orbs," "Red Orb Rotation," and "Orbs Over the Pond" sightings at a location well known to them, which is sparsely populated. The subject matter described in files FBI-UAP-D009 through FBI-UAP-D010 and depicted in video footage FBI-UAP-PR004 corresponds to reports originating from the same general area in the northeastern United States.
The case remains classified as unresolved by the FBI and the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO). The available video footage and dual-witness testimony do not provide sufficient evidence to conclusively identify the observed phenomenon as any specific conventional platform. The description of two brilliant red spheres with white plasma cores, hovering silently at low altitude and appearing to merge, does not correspond to known aircraft characteristics or atmospheric phenomena.
The footage has been publicly released by the Department of War via the Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) as part of Release 03.
- Q.01What was the true nature of the two brilliant red spheres? The description of a white plasma core within a red sphere suggests an energetic phenomenon, but its origin and composition remain unidentified.
- Q.02What caused the two orbs to appear to merge as they moved out of sight — was this an optical effect, a physical merging, or one object obscuring another?
- Q.03Are the orbs observed in this 2025 incident related to the earlier sightings in the same area — Triangle Orbs (2021), Red Orb Rotation (2022), and Orbs Over the Pond (2024)?
- Q.04What accounts for the silent, smooth motion and the apparent formation flying or tethering between the two objects?
