NUFORC Sighting 105412

Occurred: 2013-12-17 17:45 Local
Reported: 2013-12-17 18:32 Pacific
Duration: left prior to end of even
No of observers: 2

Location: Seminole, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Left a trail, Aircraft nearby

6 bright objects with "trails" hovering over Gulf of Mexico.

On December 17th at approximately 5:45 PM, I was in my vehicle heading due west on Park Blvd approximately 1/4 of a mile east of the Park Blvd/Seminole Blvd intersection. Straight ahead in my field of vision, in the distance of what I instinctively perceived to be towards the end of Park Blvd (where it runs into the beach or the Gulf of Mexico) I saw in the sky six to eight "glowing" objects. I am positive there were six, I thought there could have been another two lower in the sky and in the far right of my field of vision. The objects appeared to be small balls of light with what appeared to me to be connected to short vapor trails. If there had been only a single object I would have associated this with a typical small aircraft, but because of the number of objects and their proximity to each other I could not imagine that these objects were aircraft. Because of the direction of the "vapor trails" it was quite obvious that the objects were moving in either a straight downward direction (perpendicular to the horizon) or downward at a diagonal direction towards the horizon. While there was no quick movement it did appear that the lenght of the "vapor trails" was slowly growing. These objects appeared to be white, or a "white light". Against the setting orange colored sky these objects appeared very bright, or would be very bright at a closer range. The sky was very clear as a cold front had wiped away most, if not all of the cloud cover. The objects appeared larger than stars and a little smaller than the size of Venus in the evening southwest sky.

In the end, the best comparison I can make is that these objects very closely resembled those in science fiction movies when meteorites have entered Earth's atmosphere and are hurling towards the planets. My gut reaction when I saw the objects was exactly that of "Oh no there are meteorites heading towards us". Then I realized that was a little improbable as someone somewhere would have detected an event of that nature in advance.

I was not able to investigate further and had to turn away from the objects and head towards home. They were still glowing when I left. I am forwarding a short video separately from this report. One final note, as I turned down my street I noticed that a Coast Guard helicopter which usually flies swiftly in a southerly direction down the coast was taking additional time covering the area, possibly circling.

Posted 2013-12-23