NUFORC Sighting 179840

Occurred: 2022-04-21 10:23 Local
Reported: 2023-12-31 23:50 Pacific
Duration: ~30 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Naples, FL, USA
Location details: Somewhere near Key West, Fl. We were about 20 minutes away from landing.

Shape: Disk
Color: Silver
Viewed From: Aircraft
Direction from Viewer: West
Explanation: Contrail - Probable

We were flying and as I looked out the window I saw an object that at first looked like a rocket.

We were on a flight from Atlanta airport headed to Key West, Florida. I had a window seat and my eyes are always glued to the window. I took a break from watching the landscape to talk to my partner. When I looked back out the window there was what appeared to be a rocket launch. I snapped a photo of it because it was interesting to me to see something so high in the sky. After a minute or so I looked back at the direction of the object and I saw it had begun to rotate to become parallel with the ground. This is when I began to take a video. It appears to be some type of flat disk. I believe it was stationary. I cannot estimate the size of what I saw, but it was large and far away. There was no evidence of propulsion in the video, which is why I’ve come to believe it was not a rocket launch. In the video you can clearly see the rotation if you compare it from the start to finish.

Posted 2024-02-15