NUFORC Sighting 67560

Occurred: 2008-08-31 23:15 Local
Reported: 2008-12-20 12:46 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Montauk (Town of East Hampton), NY, USA

Shape: Orb
Characteristics: Lights on object

Bright red/orange disc seen moving silently over Atlantic Ocean from East to West on dark summer night.

At approximately 11:15 PM my wife was looking South from our vacation cottage in Montauk, out over the ocean, and observed a large orb, about the size of a full harvest moon, colored bright red/orange, moving slowly and steadily from East to West, in complete silence, on a straight unwavering trajectory.

She called me over and I observed it, too. She describes it as looking "firey" although I thought it looked more like a bright disc. There did not appear to be any other structure.

We watched it for about five minutes as it passed out of view.

At about 10 minutes later we observed either the same object, or an identical one, pass again from East to West and out of view.

We called the East Hampton Police Dept. and the U.S. Coast Guard; neither had any similar report.

The next morning we spoke to the motel manager; she said she had seen a similar object at about 8:00 PM that evening, and thought it was a hot-air balloon.

I do not believe that is what it was, as you would have seen bursts of flame, and heard something, and why would a hot-air balloon be floating over the Atlantic Ocean at 11:00 PM?

Posted 2009-01-10