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2007: Pune, Maharashtra UFO Sighting | Pulsating Sphere Case Archive

Up for a glass of water at 6:01 AM on February 22, 2007, a stargazer in Pune, Maharashtra, stepped onto the third-floor terrace he used every clear morning to look for Venus and Orion — and, glancing southeast, almost dismissed a bright spherical object as Venus itself, until it moved. It pulsed roughly once every two seconds, glowing orange-red at its base, drifting sideways before descending at a measured, unhurried pace. It stopped abruptly, blinked once, and vanished outright. About ninety seconds later, a passenger jet crossed directly over the exact spot where it had disappeared.

The witness is careful and specific throughout — right up until a promise he never quite keeps. Early on he says, “I will come to the distance a little later,” and then doesn’t, at least not in so many words; the passenger-plane detail may be his roundabout way of gesturing at cruising altitude instead. This entry keeps that gap visible rather than filling it in for him.

Date: February 22, 2007

Sighting Time: 6:01 AM

Day/Night: Early dawn — approximately 30 minutes before sunrise; witness confirms stars were still visible and the sky was unclouded

Location: Pune, Maharashtra, India (observed from a third-floor terrace)

Urban or Rural: Urban

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) — appropriately applied; the witness confirms the sky was still genuinely dark enough for stars to be visible despite the early-dawn hour

Duration: Not given as a single figure — the witness describes a multi-phase sequence (horizontal movement, vertical descent, a brief pause, a blink, then disappearance) without exact timing for each phase. A separately noted “about 90 seconds” describes the waiting period after the object disappeared and before a passenger plane appeared at the same spot — not the duration of the sighting itself. See Researcher’s Notes.

No. of Object(s): 1

Description of the Object(s): A spherical object first mistaken for Venus, distinguished by its movement; pulsated at roughly a once-per-two-seconds rate while moving horizontally, then descended vertically at a moderate pace, stopped abruptly, blinked, and disappeared

Shape of Object(s): Spherical

Size of Object(s): Undocumented

Color of Object(s): Orangish/reddish glow specifically at the bottom of the sphere

Distance to Object(s): No explicit numeric distance given, despite the witness’s own statement “I will come to the distance a little later”; first noticed at a 50-degree angle. See Researcher’s Notes.

Height & Speed: No specific altitude or speed figures given; vertical descent described qualitatively as “not fast… but not slowly either”

Number of Witnesses: 1 (witness was alone during the sighting itself; told family afterward)

Special Features/Characteristics: Witness ruled out a star or meteor based on the object’s movement and the absence of a smoke trail; approximately 90 seconds after the object’s disappearance, a passenger aircraft was seen passing directly over the same spot where it had vanished; witness speculated the object may have descended/disappeared specifically to avoid being seen by the passenger plane’s crew; witness checked news sources afterward for corroborating reports and found none

Case Status: Unexplained

Source: Undocumented — appears to be a directly submitted first-person account; original submission venue not specified

Summary/Description: At 6:01 AM on February 22, 2007, a witness on a terrace in Pune, Maharashtra, observed a pulsating, orange-bottomed spherical object move horizontally before descending vertically, stopping abruptly, and disappearing. About 90 seconds later, a passenger plane crossed directly over the same spot. The witness, unable to find any corroborating news reports afterward, remains convinced the object was a genuine UFO.

Related Cases: Undocumented — source does not reference other cases

Detailed Report

The witness had gotten up for a drink of water at 6:01 AM on February 22, 2007, roughly half an hour before sunrise in Pune, Maharashtra. Living on the third floor with an adjacent terrace, the witness had a long-standing habit of stepping out to look at the sky — Venus, the Orion constellation, whatever else was visible on a clear morning, and this one was unclouded with stars still out.

Glancing southeast at a roughly 50-degree angle, the witness noticed a bright, spherical object that at first seemed like nothing more than Venus. It was only when it moved that the witness’s attention sharpened. The object was pulsating, at what the witness estimated as roughly once every two seconds, glowing with an orangish-red light at its base, and drifting horizontally. The witness watched, more fascinated than afraid, as the object then began descending vertically — not quickly, but not slowly either — ruling out, in the witness’s own reasoning, a star or a meteor, partly because there was no smoke trail. Partway through its descent, the object simply stopped, blinked once, and disappeared.

Convinced it hadn’t simply flown off into the distance, the witness rushed further along the terrace to check whether it might be visible from another angle, quickly recognizing this as pointless given the clear, unobstructed view already in hand. Staying in place, hoping it might reappear, the witness kept watching the same spot in the sky. About 90 seconds later, a passenger aircraft came into view, tiny and blinking, passing directly over the exact location where the object had vanished. This led the witness to a specific, if speculative, thought: that the object might have descended and disappeared precisely to avoid being seen by the crew of that incoming aircraft, which would otherwise have had it directly in view.

The witness told family later that morning and checked the news for any similar reports, finding none. The account closes with the witness’s own insistence that the report, as given, is the complete and honest truth.

RESEARCHER’S NOTES

The Pune Terrace Sphere — India 2007 and a Promise Left Unfinished

Two Different Timeframes: The witness gives a specific figure of “about 90 seconds,” but this describes the waiting period after the object disappeared and before a passenger plane appeared at the same spot — not the duration of the sighting itself, which is described only as a sequence of phases without an overall time figure. Duration is marked Undocumented accordingly, to avoid conflating these two different timeframes.
An Unfulfilled Promise: The witness states early in the account, “I will come to the distance a little later,” but no explicit numeric distance appears anywhere later in the narrative as given. The later mention of a passenger plane passing through the same spot may be intended as an indirect indication that the object was near typical aircraft cruising altitude, but this is inferred, not stated outright.
Classification Notes: NL fits comfortably here — the witness explicitly confirms the sky was still dark enough for stars to be visible despite the early-dawn hour, avoiding the kind of day/night contradiction seen in some other dawn-adjacent cases in this archive.
A Minor Reasoning Note: The witness cites the absence of a “smoke trail” as part of the reasoning for ruling out a star or meteor. This detail is more directly relevant to ruling out a meteor (which characteristically leaves a visible trail) than a star (which wouldn’t be expected to have one regardless); the object’s observed movement, pulsation, and controlled descent are the stronger grounds, also cited by the witness, for ruling out either natural explanation.
The Passenger Plane Inference: The witness’s speculation that the object may have disappeared specifically to avoid detection by the passing aircraft’s crew is a thoughtful but explicitly speculative inference on the witness’s own part, not an established fact, and is preserved here as offered.
Evidentiary Weight: The account rests on a single witness with no photograph, no other observer present during the sighting itself, and no corroborating news reports the witness could find afterward — though the narrative is detailed, internally consistent, and notably self-aware about its own limits.

This is a careful witness telling a careful story — pulsation rate, angle, color, the exact moment a passenger jet crossed the same patch of sky — right up until a distance he promised and never delivered. That gap doesn’t undo the rest of the account. It remains filed as Unexplained, a single early-morning sighting told with more precision than most, and honest about where that precision runs out.