In 2020 I was 19 years old and I was living in Sydney. It was the covid lockdowns and I was inside ALL DAY EVERYDAY just playing video games non-stop. It was around 11pm at night and I decided that I needed to get some exercise, so I was going to walk to a soccer field in Randwick and do some sprints to just exhaust myself as physcially and quickly as possible. I went down to the field, the lights were off and the night sky was extremely visible, and I started doing my sprints. After I did my sprints I laid down in the middle of the field and closed my eyes. After a minute or so I opened them and I saw this glowing orange orb maybe a couple hundred meters above me, and it looked to be the size of a room or helicopter. I looked at it for about 3 seconds before I felt this rush of anxiety, or panic. I think I had instantly and unconsciously processed it as a drone, but after a few seconds I realised its large size and the fact it was completely silent but moving towards the east (ocean). I looked closer at it, and I noticed that it seemed to have metallic / silver fins portruding from the top and the bottom, barely visible from its glowing orange center. In awe I grabbed my phone and I took a photo of it. I knew it was to far to get a good photo and it was moving so I tapped towards my video camera, and thats when my phone died. I had a full battery. It sounds ridiculous but I had been inside all day charging my phone and it had full battery and after a few seconds of activity and pointing it at the drone, my phone instantly died as if the battery had been drained. I have attached the photo, but it is probably the worst photo ever taken of a UFO of all time, but I guess it proves to people, and myself, that I wasn’t hallucinating. I’d recommend zooming in on the photo, I guess you can see a glow. I watched it until it was too far, and likely above the ocean at that point. I went home pretty shaken up and I told my parents what I saw. My mum did some research that night and found an article from some people camping near Wagga Wagga a few months before that also saw an orange orb in the sky, and that at all their phones mysteriously died before they could get a picture. I got chills when she read this out to me, especially when they initially didn’t believe that it turned my phone off and that my battery must’ve died. I’ve been trying to refind that article but I’ll ask my mum and if I find it I’ll add it here. I am pretty skeptical of it being a UFO, simply because if it has the ability to silently fly and to turn peoples phones off in some localised EMP thing, why can’t it just fly invisibly? Why does it not want to be recorded or photographed but its literally glowing above a major populated city? IDK what I saw, but its been about 4 years and I think about it all the time. What do you guys think?
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