Triangle over Fort Orange, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I are on vacation from Denver. After spending the day in St. Augustine, we started back to our hotel at 10:50 pm to New Smyrna Beach. It was exactly 11:25pm, when I noticed a very obvious and huge orange/yellow fire ball blasting straight up into the sky. We had reached the Fort Orange exit at that time. I immediately pulled over and asked my wife to get out of the car. At first I thought a space shuttle launch was occurring. It soon dawned on me that the flames and sound were missing. It was just a great intense glow. After it reached about 15 thousand feet, it shot south in a lateral direction leaving behind a trail as if a meteor were moving through the sky, and the orange/yellow dimmed to white and started to look like a distant star. Trust me, that's when I knew we were witnessing a most unique occurrence. I couldn't close my jaw, and my wife pointed out it was triangular, seemingly formed out of three balls. Seriously speaking, this made my a! nniversary trip...the coolest ever. I feel very lucky to have witnessed it. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #112113). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2014-07-29 → 2014-08-15