NUFORC Sighting 44238

Occurred: 2005-04-29 21:05 Local
Reported: 2005-06-02 12:56 Pacific
Duration: approximately 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Tampa, FL, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

UFO Sighting 04-29-05 Tampa, FL

My boyfriend and I were in the parking lot of Logan's Roadhouse Restuarant in the Veterans plaza around 9pm at night. A light in the sky caught our attention, so we decided to stand there and observe it.

It was a red light with a tail located in the sky above the field directly across the street from the restaurant. At first, we thought it was a flare, but quickly dismissed that it wasn't because it wasn't moving upwards. Rather, it was moving very slowly towards our direction. The tail faded out as the light slowed down to a stop and eventually became a solitary red light. We watched it for several minutes and during this time, it stayed stationary. We ran through all of the possibilities of what it could be and we were just stunned having seen nothing like this before. I even remember looking around the packed parking lot and seeing if anyone else was observing the same thing.

We decided to move on because nothing was happening. After walking a short distance, I thought to myself to just take one more look. I'm glad I did because what I observed next was shocking.

The red light had grown into a full-fledged self-contained exploding orb in the sky. I know that sounds weird, but it's almost as if the light were in a clear balloon and exploding within the balloon. There was no sound as this happened either and we thought that was weird. Next, the bright orb dimmed and became white, then split into three separate white orbs. Two headed southward and one headed northward. The two headed southward traveled a short distance until one literally faded out and the other looked perfectly like a star amongst the others in the night sky and just stayed there. The one headed northward also faded ever so slightly at a slow pace in the sky and also eventually looked like another star in the night sky.

That is what we observed from the time the red light caught our attention until the three orbs faded and blended in with the night sky.



NUFORC Note:

Missile launch out of Cape Canaveral. Please see other reports. PD


Posted 2005-06-20

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