NUFORC Sighting 73500

Occurred: 2009-11-22 23:00 Local
Reported: 2009-11-28 00:45 Pacific
Duration: about 5 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Homestead and Miami (between), FL, USA

Shape: Flash
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Electrical or magnetic effects

Three rainbow colored prisms in teardrop shapes came out of no where and vanished over a bay between Homestead and Miami.

It happened returning by car from the Homestead NASCAR championship race late last Sunday night. First my companion and I had stopped in Homestead for dinner in a local Mexican restaurant, which I remember closed at 10 or 10:30, and we left shortly after that to return to Miami. It was late and dark over the ocean as the car went over one of several bridges between Homestead and the islands east of Miami, where we were headed. Freeway bridges. I remember we were still well south of Miami when it happened.

I was in the passenger seat with the passenger window open wide, looking directly out to the black ocean beyond the bridge. Roughly, to the east. There were lights along the walls of the bridge, but not too bright, because the darkness beyond was visible. It was very still and not many cars. No sign of anyone in particular below, or any boats there. Nothing stirring around the sky, the water, or on the sidelines of the bridge, where there were buildings or concrete, where some sort of aspects of the ongoing urban zone had vaguelly registered on my mind. It was not a swampy area or rural zone.

It had been raining, and was still a little bit, so the humidity was feeling pretty high, and there was the apparency of some degree of condensation. Before my eyes my brain registered a sort of swooping thing, what I don't know. It was only visible there about a second, maybe less. The shock of it was less strong than my mind's effort to try to place what it was, but it couldn't. It still can't.

It was possibly a foot across and a foot and a half long. But it was shaped something like a teardrop or a puff of smoke with a wider head and a long, thin sort of tail or an impression of a projection - sort of shaped like Casper the Friendly Ghost in the cartoon, when Casper was about to swoop away, his "tail" down to a small squiggle. Hard to describe. But I had the sense, at the time, that the tail-thing was moving a bit. Propelling it? I couldn't say. But that it had some sort of motion to it stays in my impression of it. Not a terribly pronounded thing, maybe, but there was that aspect to my initial impression.

The thing started out like it could have been a flare up of some kind, like when a fire or a spark might pass over a small concentration of gas lingering somewhere in the air and cause it to flare up for a second . That was exactly what it seemed like at the time. Except for things that bothered me about it, even as it happened. It was a rainbow of light flaring up toward me. I remember I started to automatically jerk back, but realized it wasn't coming any further.

Throughout its entire form,it looked like a rainbow, almost exactly.

Only not quite. Some of the colors were missing, mostly the subtle blurred shadings between colors, were sort of missing. And there was too much white, or yellow-white, in it, which increased with each successive flare, of which there were two more.

The first one had a lot of green and blue and red, pretty much like a rainbow. Only the colors were too something - too milky, maybe - to be from light refraction such as I have ever seen it before. Too solid. And shaped like the blob I described.

It came literally out of no where. I was staring out into the night to the right of the car, and it flared up out of nothing. One instant it wasn't there and the next it was. And to me the oddest thing was, even though the colors were there so bright against dark night sky, there a blackness surrounding and encasing the spectrum which I saw was not quite the blackness of the sky behind it. It was black like the sky, but somehow it didn't quite match the sky. And odd as it seems now to have noticed this, the edges, where the black of the sky met the black of the shape, the edges between the two seemed to blur, where the object's edges sort of "ran" like a watercolor, over the top of the sky. It had something about it that reminded me of the quality and order of blackness of the old telephones in the 1950s. It had a different aspect of solidity than the blackness of the sky behind it, too, though in a way it seemed to match the color of the sky. And the shape of the spectrum inside of the black surrounding it was a bit off from the type of shape than I have associated with any random spectrum I have ever seen. And the colors were very solid and bright.

Not neon bright. But, at the least, outstanding.

And when it appeared, it loomed. It came out of nothing, surged a bit toward me, forward and nose slightly turning down toward me, and then stayed suspended there, and then just vanished. It didn't fade away. It's spectrum was not moving, but was not rigid, either, in the glow or strength of the colors it had.

Oddly,the car was going pretty fast, faster than the speed limit, possibly as much as 80 mph, based how how fast my driver is inclined to drive in such road conditions. Yet I am aware for an entire half to whole second, I could observe it right there where I was looking. That seems odd, too. And it is also possible the bridge had columns or slates at regular intervals, because my impression seems to incorporate them into the event.

The second incident was beyond another of these break points in the side of the bridge. The first one seems to have occured within a different break point than the second.

The first one never came beyond the edge of the side of the bridge.

I don't think it ever was extremely near to the bridge itself, though my impression was it was not very far beyond it. Maybe a few feet. The others were about the same distance.

A couple of seconds later, when I was only a little beyond the first sighting, another, smaller sighting appeared. The same way.

Maybe half as large. The second one didn't surprise me as much, it only seemed interesting. And it disappeared maybe a little faster.

It had had more white/yellow to it, but was otherwise similar enough to be considered the same phenonena. The third one, basically the same, though far smaller and not so much color, came and went the same way, though it appeared before, or maybe as the second one was vanishing. I'm not sure I saw the third one vanish before we had moved beyond it. Neither of these were appearing to zoom toward me as the first one did.

When they were gone, I watched a little bit for others, still sort of assuming they had been something typical for whatever atmospheric conditions there were off the side of the bridge. Once we were off the bridge I asked my friend what they were, and described them to him. He is a Miami native and has driven north over that bridge many times at night from work he was doing in Homestead. He had no idea what I was talking about and said it sounded like I had been drinking, which I had not. I asked him what was along the seawall along that stretch. He said he thought it might be something industrial, but he wasn't sure. He was vague on where that spot even was, only having ever passed over it on his way to somewhere else, and there are a lot of bridges along the route.

My window was fully open and I was looking directly out of it. I never smelled anything unusual. No car exhausts. No unusual smells at all. It was all fresh and clean out there, after a recent short bout of rain. There was no sound to what I saw. It all came and went so fast, no fanfare, no aftermath. In a way it seemed perfectly normal and natural. But it wasn't. I don't know what it was.

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Posted 2009-12-12