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Time: 8:00am (UTC-3) on Dec 23, 2025
Location: near Bragança Paulista, Brazil.

I was out in my yard putting a kite up in the air for my toddler. Beautiful day, completely clear blue skies. Suddenly I notice a circular cloud formation appear and this white orb appears from the middle of it, directly aligned with my kite, so I was paying reasonable attention to that area of the sky.

It looked like a white orb with a tether dangling off it. Eventually at the bottom of this tether a bigger object "appeared". To the naked eye, it looked sometimes like a solid tictac, sometimes like an orb. The two tethered objects seemed to move together, with small variations in the distance between them. To the naked eye it was also possible to see a smaller orb blinking to the right of the tether. The initially circular (bull's-eye like) cloud dissipates quickly, you can see it's half gone by the time the video starts and fully gone at the end.

I let out all the line in the kite (200m) to see if I could gauge the distance, and it seemed like it was much further than that.

I called my wife and she helped me record and take pictures. As I observe the pics and videos now I see some interesting stuff. Let me know if anyone wants the raw video file.

Out of the plausible explanations I could think of the best ones are balloon or one of those powered parachutes.

What do you guys think?

Here's the full video, please zoom in (https://youtu.be/8BNSjWI7c6E)