NUFORC Sighting 135571

Occurred: 2017-08-05 21:10 Local
Reported: 2017-08-05 20:01 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: Niceville, FL, USA

Shape: Sphere
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Orange sphere traveling north west from the Gulf of Mexico just above the horizon; silent, level flight path

I was outside on the phone with my father, and I turned towards my house.

I noticed the object, an orange sphere, moving north east from the Gulf of Mexico, just above tree top height from my location. There was no sound. There were no anti-collision lights visible as would appear on man made aircraft.

I was to the left of the object, and the light was a steady brightness as it traveled. It was too slow and to be a shooting star, and left no visible trail as an object entering the atmosphere would do.

Now, the area around here is Eglin AFB Reservation, and I've seen helicopters, MV-22 Ospreys, C-130s, and various commercial aircraft at various times at night, and this wasn't any of those. It wasn't a parachute flare, as it was moving horizontally, and maintained a level flight path.

My background is military. Former Marine, worked on AV-8B Harriers for a decade. I'm very familiar with how aircraft look at night, and what they sound like at various distances.

Posted 2017-08-11

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