Light over Homosassa, FL
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The report, as filed
Unidentified Super Bright Light Ball.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2013-12-05 → 2013-12-22
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October 5, 2023 · 1:46 AM · CHANGING
Homosassa, FL
We went on a night walk through our neighborhood the early morning hours of Oct 5, around 1:45 am. It is a small horseshoe-shaped road-- to walk the entire thing takes about 15 min. 1/4 of the walk from the house, facing east, slightly southeast, I saw what at first appeared to be an EXTREMELY large fireball/comet. I pointed it out to my companion in excitement, and he followed to get a better view. It was less than 2,000ft AGL, and AT LEAST from end to end, school bus sized. Moreover, as we sprinted about 40 yards to get a better look from behind my neighbors tree, I realized it was completely motionless. Not only that, but it was 100% not a comet. It was a bright crimson red rectangle facing West (since that seemed to be the front, not entirely sure) 'hovering' vertically, and tapered to a point or rounded point back towards the east side of it. As my eyes adjusted to what my brain was processing, I blinked and squinted to force the object to make more sense, but instead it flashed a subtle rainbow wave along its bottom end. We jokingly said "hello" and waved to it, trying to make fun of ourselves. Instantaneously, the entire motionless object disappeared. Not by leaving slowly, or fading away; but blinking out of existence. We thought the experience was over, then no more than 2 seconds after disappearing, in the same exact patch of sky, it reappeared, but as a lonely twinkle of light that looked like just a star. Initally in this form, it was very bright, then its brightness lowered a bit. However, it was clear it was the same object, just in different form. Not only because we could sense the invisible parts of the object that we could see when it was bright red, but we remained watching it vigilantly as this "star" rotated from a Westerly facing direction, to an Easterly facing direction, and remaining at around 2000 ft AGL---couldn't have been much higher, or faster than 120knots--- it ambled in a southeast direction over farmland, until it got too small for us to follow with our eye. It sincerely felt like when we said "hello" it reacted and tried to conceal itself. I know this is conjecture, but it was an intense feeling that I must note. The sky conditions were completely clear. The moon was a bright half moon in the Northeast, and Orion was rising up out of the eastern horizon to the right of the moon from our perspective that night. From where I stood, my best guess is this object was, at the beginning of the occurrence, at least 2mi to 3mi southwest. By the time we lost sight of it as it slowly trolled away as a star, I'd guess it was 12, 15 miles to the Southeast. Ryan Montgomery
October 30, 2022 · 9:50 PM · CIRCLE
Homosassa, FL
Then we seen another group come and the light shut off and they disappeared
April 29, 2021 · 11:39 PM · FIREBALL
Homosassa, FL
I was sitting outside looking to the east and homosassa Florida I saw a hot pink streak and as I watched it go across the sky it turned into like a fireball trail and it kind of floated by slowly for about 5 minutes this happened at 11:00 38 p.m. April 29th 2021
May 28, 2018 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Homosassa, FL
My nephew called me outside at night, just after the storms and rain seemed to clear. We saw as we were facing south, to the west a very bright light just above the tree line. It was mostly stationary, so at first we thought it was a star. However this appeared to be larger than any of the other stars. It appeared to get brighter and larger so I went to get my telescope. Once I got the scope and had it lined up the light dipped slowly down then dimmed and went dark. I put the telescope down and when I did it reappeared got real bright, and appeared to move to the left, then the right. As I set my telescope up again and my nephew tried to video it, it dipped down into the tree line. Then it dimmed and disappeared completely. Attempts to video or take pictures were unsuccessful. The object appeared to me to have blue and green on top and was mostly bright white. The blue and green seemed to alternate. No sound was noted.
September 17, 2015 · 9:00 PM · FIREBALL
Homosassa, FL
There were 3 fireball looking object in sky flying westward. There were 3 in a row then we spotted another in totally different area of sky. We saw minimum of 4, but went back inside, so not sure how many total.
June 17, 2015 · 8:45 PM · LIGHT
Homosassa, FL
I was confused when I saw it chasing a orange light at a fast rate. Not as if it was chasing, but more as following. ..the light was very small in size to the helicopter