Light over West Palm Beach, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
At what seemed to be a very high altitude, an object, moving at a high speed, traveling from south to north, was seen, then disappeared
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 2011-01-30 → 2011-02-16
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October 14, 2022 · 10:25 PM · SPHERE
West Palm Beach, FL
If I heard someone telling me this story I would think they were nuts, however here goes .... a blue / green / yellow light emitting orb has visited for several days. Before you think I'm crazy, please look at the two videos, and I also have about 10 photos of it moving. I documented it visiting on Oct 12 and Oct 14th, 2022. On Oct 12 I could see it further away, on the other side of the trees, but then Oct 14th it came closer to me, on my side of the trees. It would disappear and move quickly from sight and I would ask for it to return and then it would show itself again. Please watch the videos otherwise it just sounds crazy. There was a beautiful aura around the orb, very bright. It was not a "hard" surface, the shape would shift a bit, but the light emitted was bright. If you look at the still photos you can see clearly a circle(ish) with a brighter light at the core and also a translucent aura around the circle. I took screenshot blow-ups so that you can see what I am trying to describe. I took these photos and videos from two very different sections of my balcony - I have a large terrace that wraps around my entire condo. This evening I will look for the orb again .... interesting that I have seen it on two separate evenings. I just tried to download the videos, but sadly they were too large, but I did manage to download 5 photos. You will see they are time stamped from 10:24pm to 10:38pm.
April 10, 2022 · 2:00 AM · CYLINDER
West Palm Beach, FL
A white tic-tac-shaped object was observed by witnesses to be speeding past an aircraft, spotted against the blue sky background. The object produced no noticeable noise at that range and left no visible trail. Witnesses noticed that the object was very far off in the distance as it passed behind the clouds and drifted in a straight line until it was out of sight. Comparing the speed of the object with the nearby aircraft, it made it appear the plane was moving at a snail’s pace. The primary witness stated in the report form that the time of the sighting was 2 AM. The investigator is convinced that the witness’s sighting time was actually 2 PM. ("spotted against the blue sky and next to a plane").
March 16, 2021 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
West Palm Beach, FL
On March 16th, 2016, I was taking my car for a test drive after I had the battery jumped due to leaving my hazard lights on at work. All was running smoothly under the hood after a short cruise south on *Flagler Drive (*a waterfront road stretching the length of the intercoastal waterway, on the Atlantic Coast of S.Florida.) As I prepared to make a right turn heading west onto P. Beach Lakes Blvd; something bright,shiny, white & INCREDIBLY FAST caught my eye. Driving parallel with the object I could see clearly against a blue, cloudless sky; that it was a white or silver disc, heading West, presumably from off the Atlantic Ocean. Realizing what I was seeing, I quickly pulled into a CVS parking lot & parked facing the object. At this EXACT time, the disc stopped completely. Sitting stationary in mid air. Before I could think, blink or click a pic, the object literally & almost instantaneously, changed from a white disc into dark grey/silver disc. It stayed this way for maybe .06 seconds, before dissolving/dissipating into what I can only describe as a smear of dark grey smog/smoke. The smog/smoke had an odd form, horizontal with a slight upward angle, . Before I could think about it at all, it changed/morphed AGAIN. This time into a perfectly white, fluffy, “nothing to see here’” CLOUD. This blazingly fast, white then silver DISC, dissipated into a smear of grey smog (for a split second) then changing one final time into the white cloud. A seemingly normal, white cloud, that wouldn’t solicit a second glance from anyone. My excitement & adrenaline was definitely elevated after this sighting, due to the fact that my Husband & I FINALLY saw our first UFO (TicTac!) one month before this sighting. Early February 2021, we spotted the white/off-white ‘TicTac’ coming from the East (Atlantic Ocean) heading west, inland. The size, speed & maneuvers were unmistakable to me & convinced my husband, who is an engineer with 15 years of experience of all things-in-motion, that we indeed have some pretty intriguing visitors here is SoFla!
July 25, 2020 · 9:45 PM · LIGHT
West Palm Beach, FL
At approximately 8:45 p.m., I walked down the stairs of my West Palm Beach apartment to check the mailbox. I looked up at the eastern sky and though,t "What a beautiful evening!" In that moment I saw what I thought to be a bright white meteor falling from the northeast, but it stopped! The bright light shut off as it hovered and flashed a small blue light. After a moment, the brilliant white light activated again, and the...object zipped around at an amazing speed like a bumblebee, stopped again and flashed blue. This happened several times before the light turned a small steady blue and flew and traveled to the northeast horizon at an incredibly clip until it disappeared. The object seemed to be zipping and hovering over Palm Beach International Airport. I don’t think a commercial drone can travel that quickly or emit such a brilliant light. Unfortunately, I did not have my cell phone with me.
December 16, 2019 · 7:16 PM · FIREBALL
West Palm Beach, FL
Looked like a fireball traveling fast had a reddish orange tail behind it. Only seen for about a minute. It dissolved into nothing. Also was heading towards space.
November 2, 2019 · 9:30 PM · OVAL
West Palm Beach, FL
I saw what I first thought was an aircraft. But it was flying much too fast. There were no flashing lights, as most aircraft have. It was flying low, just on the horizon, from north to south paralleling the coast. It was beige/off white in color and hazy.