NUFORC Sighting 45214

Occurred: 1985-07-10 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2005-07-21 21:33 Pacific
Duration: 1 minute
No of observers: 5

Location: Plant City, FL, USA

Shape: Triangle

Summer 1985 sighting

It was the Summer of 1985 (mid July) around 10:00 p.m. on a clear night. I was in the front yard looking in my telescope. I suddenly noticed a large "Fireball" in the southern sky headed westward (it was so large it wasn't moving). I ran in the house to get my parents to come outside to see it. Within 15 seconds we were outside, but my dad looked straight up and as I was about to tell him to look in the southern sky I looked up and saw an object I still can't believe. The Triangle object was huge and was over our heads in a northeast direction. It moved slowly and made no noise. It had some type of gaseous clouds in it and had some types of starry lights in it. When I say "in it", I mean you could see through it as it was pure black (not metallic). But it was definitely a triangle object and as it traveled northeast, we could still see it about 2 miles away as it traveled over the phosphate mine. My aunt was hanging up clothes and yelled down to us "What is it, What is that?" We yelled back "We don't know!" I called the local radio station and they said many people called in about the fiery object I saw and they said it was simply a fallen satellite. I agree that it was a fallen satellite in the south because I've seen those before, but what we saw 20 years ago I can't explain. Whatever it was, it had something to do with the fallen satellite.

NUFORC Note:

Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD

Posted 2005-09-02