Fireball over Longwood, FL

The report, as filed

To start this off, first I must say for the simple fact of myself even telling this story is difficult. The witness contact made me feel a little eerie but I’ll take a chance anyway. After reading a few other UFO sighting reports and understanding what happened to a few of those people such as, “The Maury Island Incident,” it’s made me feel inclined to shutting my mouth. Please don’t think this is fake because I “N/A” my personal information. I wouldn’t waste an hour writing a fake story about what I’ve seen because it’s a serious matter. Anyone who fakes these stories should be ashamed. The story is, I am a rapper. I travel quite a bit honestly and don’t see much UFO activity, nor have I seen any since this night. I don’t go out looking for this stuff! Sometime in Mid-August of 2014, I had an all-night studio session. On the way to the studio, I called my friend to accompany me and he agreed to tag along. When we got there my engineer was upstairs waiting and we began our night. About 2 or 3 hours into recording, I finished a song and told my engineer I was stepping out for a smoke with my friend. It was a black n’ mild (tobacco), not weed so I’m pretty damn sure there were no hallucinations. When we came downstairs we walked to the middle of the empty parking lot (besides my car) and lit it and started talking about things non related to the issue. A moment passed and I looked up (I like to star gaze) and far in the air was something I’ve never seen before. I tapped my friend and pointed up, cursing. Honestly because I was a little scared, I’ve never seen anything like that before. We sat there well over a minute staring at whatever this thing is floating in the air. Here’s where things get technical. First off the sky was clear, nothing to mistake this for. The moon was full and the object height wise was next to the moon. Distance wise, it was at least 4 or 5 miles away from us. To get a better idea of this think about a plane passing by in the sky, only this object was “floating.” If you were to look at a full moon, put your hand up and make a 3 to 4 inch gap with your fingers from the edge of the moon and that is how far the object looked away from the moon from our point of view. It was bright orange, with a little yellow. It was smoking and had an orange fog around it as if it was about to explode. Initially we thought it was an aircraft that exploded in the air. Contrary to that there were no airplanes or helicopters visible anywhere within our sight! That’s weird especially in Central Florida speaking on how we have nonstop air traffic. One thing I did notice was that a few birds were flying in the opposite direction of this thing in the sky. It was circular, large and almost seemed like something ran into it, or hit it with something. It began to smoke heavily but the smoke was drifting to the side of it where we could still clearly see it. As the smoke thickened pieces of it began to fly off, almost looking like it was getting shot by another aircraft. About 3 mini, non-hearable explosions took place before we started backing up. About 8 to 10 minutes went by before I finally pulled out my phone and called my engineer to immediately come outside. I don’t know why his reaction was like this but he didn’t seem pretty surprised. He actually told us it’s probably just the “military’s doing.” I told him he was full of it and tried to take a picture. The damn thing showed up as a blur on every single one of my pictures! I’ve always owned an iPhone which is generally known for taking good pictures but tonight it was as if something prevented my phone from snapping a picture clearly. After maybe 5 more minutes of staring, the fog around it began to consume the craft and eventually as oddly as it was the in the sky, it dissipated, slowly fell and disintegrated almost to what seemed into thin air. Not believing what I’d just seen I looked around to see if anyone else was outside staring at the phenomenon and sure enough right in front of us was a man walking by on the sidewalk stopping to stare in the same area we were looking. As there was no way to show evidence and prove what we had seen to anyone else we shook it off, went back into the studio and honestly never spoke about it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #121693). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.