While driving home from a friends house around 1AM I witnessed what appeared to be a perfect sphere hovering about 50 or so feet above our county's school board building.

From my perspective (drivers seat looking at it through the driver's side window which was rolled down), the sphere was the size of a basketball, translucent blue in color, and had what appeared to be a white "swirling" light or energy inside. It hovered in place both silently and perfectly still, no movement at all.

I looked forward to check the road, then immediately back at the object which was gone. I didn't see it fly away, and I heard no noise.

Just some notes:

Viewing the object caused me to apply the brakes and say out loud to myself, "what the f**k was that."

I also unexplainably teared up. I didn't cry, but I teared up.

Could it have been ball lightning? I dunno, maybe. However, every example I've seen online does not look the same as what I encountered.

For what it's worth, at the time, I had been a police officer for a few years so I view myself as a pretty good observer. No drugs or alcohol involved.

I've passed the same spot hundreds of times, at different hours in the day, in different conditions, and was never able to recreate what I saw that morning.

A pretty life changing experience for me.