NUFORC Sighting 34436

Occurred: 1970-01-01 00:00 Local
Reported: 2004-01-13 02:34 Pacific
Duration: one minute
No of observers: 0

Location: Key West, FL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

I lived on a shallow-water marshland in Key West, right opposite to the end of the runway-takeoff from the Key West airport.

I knew all of the flight patterns of planes going into & out of this airport from watching them every night.

I used to come home from work & relax & have a couple of beers on my back patio, looking across the salt-pond lake & at the planes leaving the airport & looking at the Winter birds migrating from up North down to Cuba, & all that.

And familiar with watching all of the Air Force planes from up a few miles North at the Boca Chica air-base.

I never believed in UFO's or ever imagined I'd ever see anything like that-It wasn't even in the realm of my mind. I was the harshest critic of UFO's in the world.

But, one nite, I was out on my patio on a moonless nite, having my cocktail, & just happened to glance up & see 3 oval/egg-shaped lights rapidly passing overhead, without a sound.

They did not shine light out from them, but had a sort of self-contained light.

One light in front, with another light behind & outward from the the lead light, so as to make a triangular configuration.

Never a sound made. Because the nite was moonless, I was hampered in getting any perspective or depth-conception about how high this thing/these things were, but I could not ascertain any signs that these lights were part of a larger craft or crafts, but I could not swear otherwise.

I was instantly stricken with the notion that this thing was completely unlike anything I'd ever seen in my life.

It had to be at least a couple hundred feet high, but probably a least a couple thousand feet high, & it streaked off, in this formation or whatever, right across the salt-ponds & I could see it heading straight off the coast of Key West, heading in the direction of Cuba.

I sat down in my chair & uttered a couple of ugly oaths, because I knew I'd seen something I didn't want to see & I didn't want to be lumped with those trailer rednecks who see UFO crap down in their pastures.

I sat there & poured myself another drink & tried to run down the litany of everything I could think of to convince myself that I hadn't seen what I'd seen, but I just couldn't con myself that way.

Naturally, it had no red or green or white running lights that aircraft have, that was one of the first things that I had subconsciencouly looked for but failed to see, that & the fact that the sucker was as silent as a ghost.

I still see it in my mind to this day & could paint it, it's so branded in my head.

NUFORC Note:

No date provided by witness, who also provides no contact information. Hence, we are not able to correspond with him to request clarification regarding the date of the sighting. PD

Posted 2004-01-17