NUFORC Sighting 150926

Occurred: 2019-11-22 05:45 Local
Reported: 2019-11-22 04:02 Pacific
Duration: 15 mins
No of observers: 2

Location: Holiday, FL, USA

Shape: Light

A stream of approximately 40 star-like objects flying in the same direction over a 15 minute period of time.

On 11/22/2019 at approximately 5:45AM EST, in Holiday, Florida (NW of Tampa, North of St. Petersburg), I was letting the dogs out and looking at the sky to try to see a meteor. I saw one star-like light flying constant in one direction (from SSW to NNE). I thought, “Oh nice, a satellite!!” Then I saw another. Then another. One after another. At first it was just one at a time in the sky, heading in the same direction. I went over to my husband’s truck to kiss him goodbye. Then I looked back up and there were about 10 of them flying in the same direction, in a line (not a perfect line but close). Two of them were flying SO CLOSE. Then MORE started coming. The highest count I got at one time was 17 flying in one line in the sky at the same time. Then 14 all together. Sometimes two were flying together. They all looked like faint stars, not bright like planets. I ran inside to get the binoculars. They still just looked like stars through the binoculars. Around ! 6:00 is when it finally stopped. The last one I saw was heading from east to west. That was the only one I saw flying in that direction. I am a constant sky watcher. I know what planes look like as we have at least 3 airports and MacDill AFB in the Tampa area. I live approximately 1km from the Gulf of Mexico and it appeared to me that these were coming out of the sky over the Gulf. They were appearing out of nowhere from the same spot. Perhaps, the angle they were coming from just made it look like they were appearing out of nowhere. I don’t know. Just trying to make sense of this amazing event I witnessed. The whole event lasted approximately 15-20 minutes.

Posted 2019-12-01