Fireball over New Smyrna Beach, FL
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The report, as filed
Red flame- like substance with white tightly packed filaments protruding moving along New Smyrna Beach shoreline after 11:00.
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 2012-12-09 → 2012-12-26
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November 16, 2022 · 1:42 AM · OTHER
New Smyrna Beach, FL
The space shuttle “Artemis1” was going to launch on November 16th at 1:42am. My daughter and I stayed up late to watch it. When it was about to go off we walked outside and we have a Estuary next to our house. The shuttle was lighting up the sky behind the trees so I took a couple pictures the went onto the middle of the street to video it. It was 1:42am and everybody was asleep since it was a week day so it was just us. All of a sudden a long straight object that made no noise flew over our heads and went into the estuary at almost tree top level. During the video you can hear me and my daughter say “What the hell is that?”. We then heard some noise in the estuary and I took a couple pictures of the tree line before going back inside. My daughter and I started looking at the pictures and couldn’t believe what we were seeing. The video did not detect the flying object but you can hear me and my daughter saying “What the hell is that?!”But the pictures did show some really interesting things. The 1st and 2nd photos show 2 blue long objects and they were not straight lines but if you scroll in you will see a blue line up in sky near space shuttle and 1 line by the trees. Both pictures have the 2 blue lines but they are different shape than each other. The 3rd photo was a picture I took of the trees from standing in middle of street. You can see two blue identical shapes that kind of resemble tail lights right where we saw the object flew in the trees. Then the 4th photo shows a strange shape and strange lines and it looks like some kind of structure like maybe a space craft. Then the 5th photo shows a non human like form. The right arm is lifting up and the left arm is down and the face is looking to the side. I then realized that the shape was right in front of the camera. It was so close. You can see in the photo the tree area in the background. We are close to the beach and get a good view of the space shuttles. If you look in the Estuary you can see plants pushed down.
July 14, 2022 · 12:14 AM · UNKNOWN
New Smyrna Beach, FL
My daughter Catherine Hope Steele sent this to me around midnight. She was looking out from the beach towards the ocean on New Smyrna Beach last night and saw this. There are a few lights blinking to the right of the film. In my opinion they are aircraft heading to an airport or Cape Canaveral. But, to the left is a bright object that seems to glow and move strangely. My thought is that it could be a drone filming the storm. There’s supposed to be a SpaceX launch tonight or tomorrow so it could be someone testing out the drone camera. It just doesn’t seem to act like a drone though, and it glows. That concerns me. Would you be able to review the video and let me know what you think please? It would give us peace of mind if it’s just a drone.
November 30, 2021 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
New Smyrna Beach, FL
A round object emitting various colors and making darting movements in the sky. At one time the object seemed to get bigger then it shrunk down. It was In the west northwest sky, moving northwest at a slow pace. It was hard to judge its distance.
November 25, 2021 · 7:00 PM · CHEVRON
New Smyrna Beach, FL
My sister and two children were outside on the patio of our vacation home that overlooks the ocean taking down the flag from the flagpole when my sister noticed a flying object in the sky. The flying object looks like a constellation of stars in a v shape. It was flying at a fast speed, lower in the sky. The lights were not brighter or duller than the stars in the sky. They matched the stars' color and brightness. My children did not take notice, as they are only 2 and 5 years old. I said, 'What is that?" and my sister responded that she thought it was a satellite she had heard were roving the world now. We looked up again and the object continued moving down the coastline. I told her that I thought it looked like a UFO. We returned inside and told my husband and our parents what we witnessed. My sister searched online for images of the satellites and realized what we saw was indeed not a satellite. I googled other UFO sighting images and found photos posted of the Lubbock Lights. We both agreed the object we saw tonight looked exactly like the Lubbock Lights images.
April 30, 2020 · 9:15 PM · LIGHT
New Smyrna Beach, FL
Initially saw what looked like a straight line constellation over the horizon, but quickly realized they were moving. They moved steady and equidistant, north to south, except for the last which was close behind to the second-to-last and off to the right. They did not move very fast, and seemed to be very high up or smaller objects. All were in my view and another witness' view for 15 to 30 seconds before seemingly disappearing or going out of view. We live in an area with a fair amount of light pollution, so I couldn't see them trail off, it moreso seemed like they weren't there anymore. All gave off the same amount of light and I could not see an outline. There were no other lights on it, the object(s) was just one source of white light.
March 21, 2020 · 11:15 AM · DISK
New Smyrna Beach, FL
My Fiancé and I were traveling west on a straight stretch of Pioneer Trail about 3-4 miles from Tomoka Farms Road. We first spotted it about the 1 o’clock position in the sky, it was extremely bright and looked like we were looking at the side of a disc with the sun reflecting off of it, however it was glowing on the bottom of the craft as well. I asked my fiancé if it could be a plane, but we both decided it definitely was not due to it’s erratic quick movement from north to south in an instant to about 10 o’clock in the sky. It never got any smaller like it was traveling away from us. It then made an track to about 3 o’clock in a second or two, and then vanished. We were both a little shocked because we only counted one small cloud in a blue sky. And we could find where it went. Later on we saw airliners flying over and instantly knew we had seen something anomalous.