NUFORC Sighting 172401

Occurred: 2022-10-22 20:00 Local
Reported: 2022-10-23 10:25 Pacific
Duration: 30-45 seconds max
No of observers: 2

Location: Naples, FL, USA
Location details: Parking lot under wide open clear sky in early evening

Shape: Circle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

I thought it was a satellite, but far too close, too fast, and no actual “craft” seen-it was like a moving star that was moving fast

My friend and I had gone shopping and had gotten back to my place and we were looking at the sky (trying to catch a meteor) and I was mentioning that I had seen some drones and satellites the last few evenings, but that was it. Just then I said, “There’s one!” But then as we watched it and I saw how clearly bright and much closer than any satellite I’ve ever seen, and the rate of speed was not that of a normal satellite when you watch them-then this flew in a direct straight line, headed southeast to what I called “the Everglades area…” and the light just vanished and so unnaturally quickly that I knew then that it was something else. Also, Because I ALWAYS have my binoculars with me, we both had enough time to look at it for a few seconds and we both witnessed a dark moving mass around it, not to be seen with a naked eye. There was no form to it, almost looked like a dark shadow of a large bird flapping its wings all around it. I can hardly explain it. It was just a “blobby” shadow of energy, I would say. Who knows, but after seeing objects the evening before, and I reported it, this was entirely different and just as odd. No sound, just a traveling white star-like ball-

Posted 2022-12-22

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