Metallic sphere with textured surface hovered smoothly with abrupt direction changes over Delgosha Garden, Shiraz, Iran... Witness's account of the sighting. I was on a video call with my family while visiting Delgosha Garden in Shiraz, Iran, when a strange object in the sky caught my attention. It was coming toward me and passed close by before moving across the garden. The first thing I noticed was that it was completely silent and moved so smoothly that I felt like I had never seen anything move that smoothly before. Its surface reflected the sunlight, and I believe it had some kind of texture on its surface. I’m pretty sure it wasn’t a completely smooth, featureless orb. I have three videos of it, but they were recorded with my old Samsung S7 Edge, so the quality isn't very good, especially with the zoom and camera shake. In the first video, I was still talking to my family on the phone, so I removed the audio. The second video starts after I finished the call and continues until I could no longer see the object because of the trees. The third video starts from behind one of the garden buildings. The turn to the right is obvious in this video. For a few seconds, the object appears to stop moving, which scared me, and that's why I didn't record anything after that. I didn't actually watch it disappear myself because I was scared, but it started moving upward into the sky, which can be seen in the third video. I showed the videos to my family and friends, and they thought it was probably a balloon or a drone. That's why I never published them before. I'm still not sure what it was, but I wanted to put the videos out there anyway, even if it turns out to be just a balloon.

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