Light over Cape Canaveral, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Bright object, incredibly fast, witnessed over Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2006-11-12 → 2006-11-29
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May 30, 2020 · 3:28 PM · UNKNOWN
Cape Canaveral, FL
Today, while watching the recorded launch of the SpaceX Dragon rocket, my wife and I noticed an anomaly that deserves explanation. As the first stage of the rocket returned to earth, at approximately 6:02 (six minutes, two seconds) into the flight, an object traveling at very high speed streaks from center of the picture, and far below the rocket, slightly upward and to the right .. approximately the 2 o'clock position, if you will. Obviously, the camera providing the picture of the return is mounted on the side of the stage one rocket. In the view seen on TV, there are two directional guidance paddles (I have no idea the official name for them) that can be seen further down on the side of the rocket. The object we noticed can be seen slightly to the left of the paddle on the right as it streaks away further to the right. To me, it appears to be far below the rocket, perhaps closer to cloud level. Certainly the area in the ocean designated for the return lan! ding site is a well-known "no flight" area for aircraft. The speed that the object is traveling appears to far exceed that of normal aircraft.
February 12, 2019 · 2:00 AM · CIRCLE
Cape Canaveral, FL
Anyone see the green/orange fiery ball fall from the sky last night? Meteorite? It was between 1:30am and 2:30am some time. This was really quick, but very odd. Living next to the space center, we are fortunate enough to see the rockets go up, and some times come down - these days on purpose, mostly. I've seen a landing of the reusable rockets from SpaceX right here in our backyard, and this thing was almost as big and bright - a bright, fiery ball of green/orange light came down much faster (if you've seen the rockets land, they come down fast) - but it didn't slow at the end like the rocket. It was like it came down as an impact, but once it "impacted" beyond the line of sight, there was no sound. As a matter of fact, there was no sound at all. I was expecting some kind of impact. It lasted a whole two seconds, maybe, and that was that. Anyone else see this, know anything about it, or maybe what it might have been? Meteorite?
October 30, 2016 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Cape Canaveral, FL
We live in Cape Canaveral and Over Look Port Canaveral .. Tonight At 9:00 PM October 10/30/2016. We Noticed 6-7 Very Bright Orange Balls Of Light Heading South/SouthWest Out of the Port !! Flying Over The Banana River With Perfect Alignment in a Straight Line !! They Were Large And Silent Then They Began To Dissapearing 1 By 1.. We Ran Up On Top Of The Roof And Watched Them Until They Disappeared!! It Was Crazy !! I Hope Others Saw Them As Well So We Can Get Answers To What They Could Be !!
August 6, 2014 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Cape Canaveral, FL
Red and green flashing lights on craft. craft hovered_ stood still in the sky. no sounds heard. lower than an airplane designated flight path. hovered lower, than rose a bit. multiple lightning flashes that converged into one line appeared to its north side_very unusual pattern. no thunder followed lightning_this may have noting to do with craft. craft than slowly rose than disappeared from sight (unable to discern if it disappeared or moved father off/out of view) this was witnessed by several people over the course of a half hour or a bit less) craft simply sat in the sky...the word "drone" was used in conversation but it was larger than any conventional "drone". again, this was totally silent. no engine, propeller, turbine was heard at any time.
July 4, 2014 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Cape Canaveral, FL
On July 4, 2014, approximately 9:30 p.m. ET, near Cape Canaveral, Florida, we witness 6 UFO sightings. Sequentially, this is what we saw. As we returned home after watching fireworks near Sidney Fisher Park, I pulled into the ((deleted)) condominium complex and noticed an orange light hovering above the beach just east of the condo complex. As I exited the car, I walked around the condo complex to try and get a better view, but by the time I got there, the orange light had disappeared. I proceeded upstairs to the fifth floor condo, and proceeded to the balcony and witnessed another orange light hovering what seemed like no more than a mile off the beach, maybe 2,500 feet in the air, and directly east of the condo. While that light hovered in place without a sound, I called to the rest of my family including my wife and my father-in-law, an ex-rocket engineer with Lockheed Martin space systems. As they joined me on the balcony, we witnessed another orange glow travel from the north down the beach, pause for a moment near the condo at about 1,500 feet above sea level, and then proceed to travel east out over open water. All of us were left speechless, trying to explain the sighting and the fact that there wasn’t a single sound. During this time, the original orange glow that was hovering, literally just disappeared in place. It wasn’t like it was hidden behind a cloud; it was literally like the light turned off and the object was just gone. My mother-in-law ran back into the condo to retrieve binoculars as I started to try and take pictures with my iPhone. The pictures are added here. Over the next 5 minutes, we witness two orange glows side-by-side almost in formation follow the same path down the beach from the north as if they launched near the Kennedy Space Center and paused at about the same altitude as the prior aircraft, roughly 1,500 feet above sea level. One of the two proceeded to rise vertically in place to about 2,500 feet, close to the same altitude the first aircraft was at, but slightly more north in the sky. As I tried to find it in the binoculars, the second of the two aircraft had again just disappeared in place, like the light was just turned out. Returning to the original aircraft, it too had disappeared. As the prior aircraft were hovering in place and rising to the roughly 2,500 feet above sea level; a final aircraft followed the same flight path as the prior three. As that aircraft neared the same area of the prior two, it paused, rotated and turned out towards sea. This one, I could find in the binoculars what appeared to be two circular exhaust engines side by side. The aircraft proceeded slowly out east for what seemed like 3-5 miles before it too disappeared out of site. Stunned, we all turned to each other in amazement at what we saw. Were they test helicopters? Where they drones – never heard a completely silent drone? Given the clear distinct side-by-side orientation of the engines for the final aircraft, it was confirmation that it was a powered aircraft vehicle. But even at that, we couldn’t explain the orange glow as it approached us. Why would we see the glow of engines? How did they hover with no underneath engines for flight stabilization? A thousand questions; all leaving us with the conclusion that we just witnessed a unique UFO sighting. ((deleted)) Condominiums, Ridgewood Ave., Cape Canaveral, Florida.
April 5, 2014 · 11:25 PM · TRIANGLE
Cape Canaveral, FL
Astronomer spots triangle with white inlaid lights passing silently at low altitude.