Chevron over Port Charlotte, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife and I were on the deck of our home in Port Charlotte, FL. It was a very quiet evening with the cold frontal passage earlier in the day so the night was quite clear. At about 10;35 PM this V -shaped craft passed overhead with extraordinary puck-type lights underneath. Roughly 7 lights under each (wing.) The lights were dull and did not appear to be used for illumination. The craft displayed no navigation lights as required by the FAA and was in an airport control zone at the time of observation. There was absolutely no....NO sound. There was no airframe noise as you would hear even from a glider. I have submitted this report to MUFON and another organization but with no satisfactory answer. As a former Navy Fighter Pilot and 33-year airline pilot, I have never ever seen anything like it. It also had a strange misty look along what would be the tail area like something that was "decloaking" in a Star Trek movie. I will not forget it. I would sure like to know what it was. I have seen many B-2's and they all make noise unless they have improved engine noise suppression, and I have never observed puck-type lights under the wings of a B-2. That was MUFON's explanation. I do not buy it.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #171060). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2018-04-13 → 2018-04-30
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