NUFORC UFO Sighting 179583

Occurred: 2023-11-30 12:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2023-12-04 18:34 Pacific
Duration: low and slow
No of observers: 1

Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL, USA
Location details: swimming backstroke at my health club. First 2 of them in tandem. 3rd later.

Shape: Cigar
Color: white
Estimated Size: no idea. maybe smaller than a small car.
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: overhead and north of me at 50 degrees maybe
Angle of Elevation: 55
Heading: south to north
Closest Distance: above three story building
Estimated Speed: slow... slower than traffic on A1A
Explanation: Drone - Possible


Saw two tictac shaped objects, silent from where I was, swimming backstroke. 3rd object came shortly after.

Have to assume these were drones, but could not find similar shapes in search. They were flying slowly, whatever they were. Silent.

In the first pass, one was slightly in front of the other, flying along and to the ocean side and just above the Carlyle, a condo building of 3 or 4 stories. Looked like they could have been as large as a small car, but shaped for all the world like a giant tictac.

Route was south to north between that building ( Carlyle) and The Lodge and Club at Ponte Vedra Beach. Closer to the Carlyle, and slightly west of Ocean Blvd. watched them go and went back to swimming.

Then a 3rd one followed shortly after. Might have been 1 minute, might have been 2. might have been a drone coming back for another pass without its friend. Whatever. 3rd one flew on the other side of the Carlyle, west side of that building, just above roof height. Again the path was south to north.

Nothing else happened. No military planes showed up from NAS Jax or Mayport. Assumed if it was dangerous, they would have. Continued my swim.

You see all kinds of stuff swimming backstroke, but this was a first. If I had not been swimming backstroke, I would never have seen them -- unless maybe sitting poolside looking north, which no one does because the sun is not coming from that direction.

If I'd had a camera or phone, I would have taken a picture. There wasn't anybody else in the pool to do it. I looked around. Employees inside were, you know, inside. Lifeguard either gone for the day or not present at that time. If I had gotten out of the pool to got inside, they would have been gone.

I'm not sure on the day, honestly. It was last week ( last week of November, first couple days of December), and I swam in reverse order, Sunday 12/3, sat 12/2, thurs 11/30, tues 11/28 -- sat 11/25 before that. Mostly I swim between 11am and 1 pm.

Posted 2023-12-09