Light over Ruskin, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
2 craft stationary bright as venus, not in air traffic approaches no flashing navigation lights.after about 2 minutes they moved in sequence maintaining identical movements,one craft dissapeared in an instant the other followed after 30 seconds
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #151633). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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July 15, 2022 · 7:15 PM · SPHERE
Ruskin, FL
Easiest for me to do is cut copy and paste this from my social media account First let me start with a couple of things about me; I have been a fulltime paramedic for going on 30 years and for the past 7 years a paramedic field supervisor, locally in the Tampa Bay area. Why do I feel this is worth mentioning? Training. I am trained to objectively observe things, several things at once in a high impact stressful environment. Patient condition and much much more. I have also been trained in investigations, being a supervisor a lot of times I must gather evidence, data, testimony and more to handle incidents or situations with our staff or the public. In all our training we are always reminded to remain objective, gather facts and evidence before concluding anything. Friday night (7/15/2022) between 7 pm and 730 pm in the evening, I was outside getting the grill ready to fix dinner. Now, I will tell you I live in Florida, just south of the city of Tampa on the Gulf Coast. Near me I have 2 commercial airports; Tampa International, St. Pete / Clearwater International, several small private airfields and then lastly MacDill AFB which is just off to my northwest. This is Hurricane hurricane/rainy season so while getting the grill going, I was checking the sky around me after hearing a couple rumbles of thunder in the distance to see if I needed to move my grilling dinner up onto the front porch. Seeing the clouds were forming off to my north and west it appeared that I had plenty of time and proceeded to lean up against my car waiting for my grill to finish burning so I could cover it and get ready to BBQ. While leaning up against my car and looking at the sky I could not help but notice a bright star-like object in the sky. It was definitely bright enough to grab your attention and seemed like it was more like a planet with the off to the west nearing sunset time. I thought about that for a minute while looking and realized that was not possible, working overnights like I do and following some basic astronomy the “parade of planets” has been on going in our morning sky between 4am and 6am, at that time we have been able to see 5 of our solar system neighbors; Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter, and Neptune. It was awfully bright to me if in fact it was a star, it was the only one visible. I sat staring at this object for a couple minutes when I decided to grab my phone out of my pocket grab a quick pic/video of it and then see if my Sky Safari app can help me solve the mystery. Now, this is where shit gets pretty cool. So, I got my camera up on my phone glanced back up to see where it was, I could see it was still just appearing like it was stationery so I quickly snapped a picture and then flipped to video to see if I could get a clearer image and zoom in. I started to record the object and began to talk so that I had some details matching the video and voice together. I rambled on about seeing the object, being in Florida and blah blah blah like a Charlie Brown school teacher for a few more seconds when the video stopped recording on its own, I had not stopped recording. A little message popped up on the bottom of my screen saying something like "internal camera failure" and exited camera mode to my home screen. (More details on this later so read on!) I was looking upwards at around a 60-75° angle, looking almost due south. It is close to 7:30p on Friday, July 15th, 2022, with an evening temperature with humidity at about Dragon's breath or somewhere in the mid 90s with high heat index. The trees that you see in the video next to the garage stand about 12-15 feet tall (The palm leaves are basically level to the peak of the garage). I had a great reference point, could clearly see the object still appearing like it was not moving so I quickly checked my camera to see if the picture and video saved, it did. Any time I have had a camera fail happen like this, it is almost always when attempting to open the app of as you snap a picture or hit record. I have never had my camera fail mid recording and worth noting, any failure I have had trying to take a photo or video, it has never saved, and I have had to start over again. So having the video capture and 1 photo, I proceeded to pull up Sky Safari to locate my star or planet. When I looked back up to my reference point and its entire surrounding area, the object was gone. I had been watching this object for at least 2-3 minutes in total, the object did not once appear to be moving, in any direction and now it is no longer there!!! With the Sky Safari App calibrated and ready, I pointed in the direction of where the object was and did find 1 possible match, Zubenelgenubi. It is one of the brighter stars in our night sky, but this is not yet a night sky and there are no other stars to be seen, anywhere. Also, Zubenelgenubi would have only been about 45-50 degrees up on the horizon which would have forced me to have X-ray vision to look through my neighbors' homes, like I said, I was looking upwards about 60-75 degrees. Living where I do, I am always used to the sights and sounds in the skies around me, like I said, several airports, a military base and plenty of medical, tourist, private, news and law enforcement helicopters... Not counting the 5 branches of military helicopters that fly in and out of MacDill plus Coast Guard. Almost daily I will see or hear helicopters fly directly over the house and when they are hovering, they are noisy! This made no noise that I could hear, which would include the winding like noises of drones, which fly overhead quite often as well. The other strange thing I noted, the absence of birds. I live about a mile in a half from the Gulf of Mexico nestled nicely in central Florida, birds!?!?? Yeah, lots of them are always flying around chirping like crazy, it is evening time which for a lot of our poultry foul like friends means feeding time. To match the coloring of what I was seeing in the sky, white, here are the birds off the top of my head that I could think of; Seagulls Egrets Storks Doves Ibis Pelicans Cranes Herons Not counting the white birds in our area, there are plenty of other birds that are always out during this time especially when the neighborhood cats are outside wreaking havoc. Mommaz and Thumby. 2 cats that rule the neighborhood most all hours of the day and night. 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August 30, 2021 · 4:45 AM · DISK
Ruskin, FL
Bright object remained still in the early morning sky. Disk or Saucer shape, except it was long ways top to bottom.
November 29, 2019 · 2:17 PM · OVAL
Ruskin, FL
When I looked, I saw what looked to be a oval or circle shapes UFO, not saying it was alien but it did look rather odd and appeared to be something I've never seen before I do not know when it appeared but my observation period was about 7 to 8 minutes until it made a noise in the sky and flew east towards the beach near by . The UFO seemed to by grey or white, resembled some sort of metal
November 27, 2017 · 5:40 AM · LIGHT
Ruskin, FL
On 11/27/2017 at around 5:40AM, I took my dogs out back, so that they can go. I looked up to the sky, as I always do, and it was beautiful. There were very little clouds and the stars could be vividly seen. Suddenly, I realized one of the stars in the distance appeared to be moving from west to east. I thought it was a comet, but there wasn't any trail behind it. Moreover, this star/light move very fast. I didn't want my wife to think that I was telling stories so I called her to see for herself. By the time she came outside, the star was moving towards the east. I pointed my spot light to the sky to who my wife what I was looking at looking at. Immediately, she thought it was a "shooting star" until another star began to move int he opposite direction towards to west, at the same high velocity. I don't think they were commercial planes, because we see them all the time. In fact, there was a plane passing by while the other star moved to the east, and it was much slower, with flashing lights. The incident lasted for about five minutes. So, my question is; was the Military (macdill AFB), conducting any experiments in the skill this morning? If so, do we have aircraft that is capable of such high speeds and able to fly at such high altitudes? Note: This is not the first time, I am seeing this phenomena in that part of the sky; this is the first time I had someone else, my wife, to witness it with me. Could there be a logical explanation for this? I'm sure it is going to happen again. If it does, I will take recording of it. Witness provides no information; elects to remain anonymous. Hoax?? PD
July 14, 2014 · 9:15 PM · UNKNOWN
Ruskin, FL
I finally saw something in a pitch black sky that made the wife and me both say, "What the hell did we just see"? Coming into sight over the tree line, heading due west, in a dark sky (about 9:15 pm, Monday July 14th), with no other cars in sight, was a bright light looking like it might have been a plane heading for the air force base. We were traveling North on hwy 41, between Palmetto, Fl, and Ruskin, Fl. Being the only lit object in sight, about 1 mile up, we were both looking right at the light, when it changed direction 180 degrees and was gone in less than a second. It never stopped or made a turn. I saw a bright whiteish light. Since the wife wasn’t driving, she spent more time checking it out and said she saw a red light at the bottom of the object. The whole sighting was only 5 seconds long. Watched it coming into view for about 4 seconds, and then right back out the way it came in, less than a second later. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sober-minded and serious. PD
April 12, 2013 · 9:20 PM · OVAL
Ruskin, FL
Orangeish, Redish orbs.