NUFORC Sighting 69524

Occurred: 2009-04-04 20:00 Local
Reported: 2009-04-04 03:09 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 1

Location: St. Augustine, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail

Orange light over the ocean

Sometimes I like to go to the beach as the sun goes down and walk as far as I can until I'm isolated and just enjoy the environment. Last night as I was heading back, I saw an intense orange light in the sky which looked similar to a firework which is about to explode into multiple little specks of light. That is what I actually thought it was, but when it did not become a bunch of smaller lights like a firework,I decided that it must be the light of a helicopter because it moved slowly like one. It began to head towards the beach as I expected to see/hear a helicopter but didn't. The light then dimmed as it moved paralell to the beach and looked a little bit like it could be an airplane and yet thinned out and resembled a comet, then small enough to be a star. It changed directions after about 3-5 minutes, then it suddenly disappeared. About 5 seconds later, it came back, reversed direction and immediately disappeared again.

Posted 2009-04-14

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