Other over Fort Lauderdale Beach, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
The object seemed to appear out if the blue in the night sky, from my perspective north/northeast of the moon. It was a trapezoid with parallel lines of red and green lights - many more lights than an airplane has, and was 4 or 5 times larger than an aircraft. It moved east slowly in a straight line, reversed, went forward, then sideways and disappeared into clouds.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #126805). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2016-04-07 → 2016-04-24