NUFORC Sighting 151509

Occurred: 2019-11-20 23:17 Local
Reported: 2019-12-12 08:53 Pacific
Duration: 5-8 seconds
No of observers: 3

Location: , , Unspecified

Shape: Sphere

Bright object resembling star or satellite in night sky traveling at tremendous speed does figure 8 above our cruise ship in night sky.

Family vacation on the Disney Cruise Line ship “The Dream”. Wednesday November 20th, approximately 11:17 PM, Location was open ocean 6 hours after leaving Disney’s Island Castaway Cay located in the Bahamas. While sitting on balcony of our state room, 3 of us witness what looked like a “shooting star” but with no streak or tail, directly above us in the sky on a clear night, an object that crossed the sky at high speed and then changed trajectory to do a full figure 8 in the sky spanning a wide range in the night sky, then increased speed and disappearing in the direction it was first traveling. Object looked like a star: satellite, bright circle. The sighting lasted about 4-7 seconds. Ruled out drones as they are prohibited on ship and was too high of a distance and speed was too fast to be anything flying less that 10,000 feet. We had never seen anything like this before and immediately knew we had just witnessed something that shook us to the core. Witnesses were sober and coherent. The path of the figure 8 was with very smooth curvature. Figure 8 would have been sideways from my point of view, object originated from west to east, then rounded out a figure 8 south to north and then at consistent speed but increased speed after completing the figure 8 traveling west before disappearing. Had the speed similar to a “shooting star”. Ruled out satellite/ airplane/ space station.

Posted 2019-12-19