Sphere over Merritt Island, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Looks like an orange orb standing still in the sky. First thought it was the sun, but the sun had already set. It's just sitting there with no movement. I'm looking south
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132755). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-02-17 → 2017-03-06
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March 1, 2023 · 8:21 PM · CIRCLE
Merritt Island, FL
Daughter left house at 5:30pm noticed the orbs in the sky. She came home at 8:10pm and told me about it. I went outside and watch them. I went back out again and they moved slightly. Jupiter and Venus
July 11, 2020 · 10:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Merritt Island, FL
Was in the backyard, enjoying the morning on my patio, looking south. Clear weather. The property to the south is grassland with a house and some apartments a football field"s length away. The area is wide open. Suddenly, I noticed an object moving slowly from my right well above the buildings to the south, I realized it was some sort of rectangular object, it seemed to be transparent, I could see an actual framework inside, I realized that it was possibly 20 miles south and was heading east. I gauged it to be easily 20 x 30 feet at the distance I was seeing it, which made me think it was probably much larger. It moved in a straight line to my left towards the ocean until I lost sight of it. There was no wobbling or spinning of the object. I spend almost every day outside on my patio, feeding the birds and squirrels in the morning and doing other activities and have never seen anything like this. We have a small airport about 6 miles south, so we see small airplanes and helicopters regularly. We have an Air Force base about 15 miles south of my place, with large planes and helicopters, there is an International airport about 60 miles west of my place, we have become used to seeing air traffic of all sorts over the years, but nothing like this. It was almost like a giant box kite that had no covering, there was no sound. I wonder if anyone else reported this event because the object was so large.
December 30, 2019 · 9:00 PM · OTHER
Merritt Island, FL
I was driving from cocoa beach to merritt island on highway 520 when I saw a light in the sky I observed the light for a few minutes as I noticed the center started to get brighter then it vanished moments later I noticed a light further in the sky moving then vanished the light was wide with an arch at the bottom and the top seemed to be flat
November 20, 2019 · 7:00 PM · LIGHT
Merritt Island, FL
We went to the store and ten minutes later the objects were no longer in the sky.
March 6, 2016 · 6:50 PM · LIGHT
Merritt Island, FL
I pulled over into Veterans Park behind the Merritt Square Mall on Merritt Island to take a look at the lights. I got out of the car and I thought I heard helicopters off in the distance. Patrick AFB is South of our location so I thought that it was something going on at the base. I got back in the car and turned around and stopped and opened my wife’s window to let her hear what I thought where helicopters. She said that she couldn’t hear anything. I got out of the car to listen and look at the lights and I could not hear any noise. We looked again and saw a lot more of the light moving in the same line, North East to South West. I got out of the car and looked and listened and could not hear anything. I got my phone and used the camera and started taking a movie of the lights. We would watch a group of 10 to 15 lights go by when another line of lights would appear. It looked like the lights would disappear when they got on passed us in the same place. This lasted around 20 minutes. Finally the lights stopped and we went on our way. It looked like they were coming from Cape Canaveral which was north of us and I estimated the lights where about 1000 to 2000 feet high. Patrick AFB does not have that many aircraft assigned to the base so I don’t believe they came from the base. Most of the time when I am out at the base I might see a couple of helicopters and two to three C-130s. I don’t know what the lights where. Thought they might be lanterns but they seemed to high to have come from the city of Cape Canaveral. I really don’t know what they were.
March 4, 2016 · 7:00 PM · SPHERE
Merritt Island, FL
On 3/4/2016, we were stopped at a traffic light at Merritt Ave. and S.R.520. From the east, we spotted 8 or 9 bright orange glowing orbs slowly heading southwest. They appeared to be closer to the ground in the east and gradually ascended as disappeared as they traveled southwest. There orbs did not follow in a line or make up a larger shape. They were independent from another, but followed more or less a similar path. This is the third time we have seen these within a year. The first time was in Cocoa Beach, and the second from the oceanside, going over PAFB. There were only 3 or 4 the previous times. Same bright orange glowing orbs. Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD