Unknown over Port Orange, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Hovering lights, apparently a helicopter, with very dim lights and no discernible sound.
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 2013-03-09 → 2013-03-26
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December 20, 2019 · 7:15 PM · LIGHT
Port Orange, FL
I seen a fixed light in the sky that slowly faded away only to come back brightly. It appeared to hover is the same location with a slight movement left to right at times and up and down. I witnessed it for approximately 20 minutes, but recorded about 1.5 minutes of it. It caught my attention when it got very bright which is what made me notice it in the first place.
April 25, 2019 · 9:13 PM · FIREBALL
Port Orange, FL
Sitting out on the deck, enjoying thee evening, when a bright orange light appeared over the ocean then another and another then a few minutes later, a double one showed up. They showed up very bright and then a very quick fade out. This is the second night in a row we have seen these fireballs.
December 31, 2017 · 11:00 PM · SPHERE
Port Orange, FL
It was New Year's Eve, my family and I we're outside, I was about to leave when I looked up and seen an orange orb. I first thought it was a plane, but then realized it was moving very slowly and changing direction. It would get brighter then dimmer. It would get so dim that you couldn't see it then all of a sudden show up again. I have video of this event.
December 24, 2016 · 8:30 PM · SPHERE
Port Orange, FL
I saw five orangish-red twinkling round objects in the evening sky around 20:30 - 21:00 traveling in a straight line from horizon to horizon, equal distance apart from east to west on Christmas Eve 2016. Each object appeared to be at least 1000 feet in altitude and were traveling at a constant speed, except for the middle one which seemed to slow slightly before disappearing. Each light twinkled and had the same illuminosity until the light faded somewhere over or near the Spruce Creek Fly-In Airport. The light source acted like a looping (repeating) laser projection, although the cloud deck was broken or scarce that evening. The only other conclusion I could reach was that the objects were highly illegal drones which had situational awareness of one another. They traveled in a straight line along a consistant heading from somewhere near Ponce Inlet, Florida (New Smyrna Beach Airport) and the Fly-In.
November 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Port Orange, FL
I contacted the sheriff's office to inquire whether their chopper was out tonight and was told that it was not. I was eventually redirected to the UFO hot line, where I stated my case on the answering machine and then came to report the incident here.
April 3, 2016 · 10:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Port Orange, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD