Only slightly less common than the ubiquitous saucer shapes are the unidentified flying objects that appear to be perfectly round spheres. In size the sphere objects have been observed to be as small as one meter in diameter up to huge flying balls that are estimated as well over one hundred meters across. In daylight they tend to look silvery, as though made of some polished steel or aluminum. These spheroid craft are often described as giant flying ball bearings. In the twilight or nighttime sky a glowing orange or reddish light seems to emanate from them. A few reports state seeing either a small row of "windows" or possibly a narrow rim around the equator of these spheres.

As with the saucer craft, the spheres are highly maneuverable and can go from a hover to supersonic speeds in an instant. Despite the extreme speeds they have been observed obtaining, the spheres generate neither sound nor create a sonic wake in their passing. Quite often these strange round objects are traveling at a very sedate speed as though they have nothing to fear and all the time in the world to get wherever they are going. During World War II, allied pilots often reported having what they called "foo fighters", small luminous spherical orbs about a meter across, keep pace with their aircraft as they flew over combat zones.

Small spheres have been seen to glide over fields where crop circles subsequently appear. They have been observed around sunset to come in from very high, occasionally leaving a short-lived corkscrew-like trail of ice vapor in their wake. Many of the anomalous sightings filmed by various space missions on the Space Shuttle flights and from the International Space Station appear to be these round sphere-shaped UFO's. They are often seen to be gliding along above heavy thunderstorm clouds.

Another strange quality exhibited by the spheres is their seeming ability to simply vanish. They have been observed to just slowly fade out of existence as though somehow either phasing through a dimensional shift or possibly reverting to an invisible state. If, as has been speculated, these craft employ a powerful electro-magnetic anti-gravity engine then the perfectly round shape is understandable. A sphere is the perfect shape for such a device to use. It is through this lack of understanding that the Philadelphia Experiment, as allegedly undertaken by our own Navy, went so horribly wrong.

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