Circle over Melbourne Beach, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
This is a video i took with snapchat that shows it - as you know the sun doesn't set in the East!!! Https://share.snapchat.com/m/0yPY82XT?share_id=mSgoCgQf6kk&locale=en-US
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #175828). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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October 27, 2022 · 5:34 AM · OVAL
Melbourne Beach, FL
Heading north on bike - object came from east (ocean/AIA). At first I thought it was a shooting star but then when it came overhead in front of me I I saw that it was much larger and glowing. It seemed to be rotating or turning as it moved SW. A few seconds later, far to my left it quickly shot out of sight
June 12, 2019 · 10:00 PM · UNKNOWN
Melbourne Beach, FL
We think 2 UFOs....2 tiny lights recorded for about a minute. We watched the top light bolt higher and then the lower light does an unbelievable semi circle motion. Moved SO FAST like nothing I have ever seen before.
September 24, 2016 · 1:00 AM · OTHER
Melbourne Beach, FL
About 2 miles out over the ocean, directly east of Melbourne Beach. an amorphic, bright, red glow hovered above the ocean. This folloowed a lighning storm and there were some clouds remaining over the ocean...thye shape changed and became sperical, as if you were looking at the bottom half of the moon; the top half being covered by clouds. The red/orang-red became brighter and the shape continued to morph. We thought, perhaps, a faulty rocket was falling from Cape Canaveral or, perhaps, lightning had struck a craft at sea and it had caught fire. Suddenly, as we continued to watch, it gave another heave of hue/brightness and disappeared/stopped/blinked out. It was beautiful, starnge and a bit unsettling. I was raised on this ocean and have never seen anything like this on any continent, above any ocean or body of water. If anyone else witnessed this, I'd appreciate hearing from them...thank you!
January 3, 2015 · 8:05 PM · FIREBALL
Melbourne Beach, FL
While camping on an island off the coast of Melbourne Beach on Saturday, January 3, 2015, while facing south west we observed a fireball falling from the night sky, at approx 8:05 pm, that appeared to be a meteor. The fireball fell from the sky for approximately a minute or two and then all of a sudden stopped falling, stopped burning, and then started glowing red and hovering in the sky. We all watched as it flew away west toward land, at a slow controlled speed towards the shore till it went away. There also aappeared to be a helicopter in the sky that approached it and went away with it possibly following it.. Our group ages ranges from 5-46 years old. 7 of us adults have never witnessed anything like this ever.
September 3, 2014 · 8:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Melbourne Beach, FL
I was walking the dog on Sunset Blvd and I thought I saw a small plane of some sorts which was very bright like it was on fire. I stopped and watched it pass by for approx 30 seconds and I was almost expecting it to blow up or crash but it just slowly went by and disappeared. It didn't appear to go down towards the Melbourne airport as I would have expected. The sky was clear and a neighbor walked by the other direction but she did not see it object, it had disappeared at that time but I told her my observation. She mentioned other sightings in the area which is why I am reporting this one. I seriously thought it was a sessna aircraft on fire.
August 29, 2014 · 11:30 PM · CIRCLE
Melbourne Beach, FL
I saw this glowing ball in the sky behind my house at some distance. It was some color red-yellow and glowed like a fire and cast a glow up into a space above it. It traveled smoothly and not too quickly across the sky in an easterly direction away from the ocean. I went outside and watched it as until its path was prevented from view due to trees. I went out into the front of my house in the street and watched it proceed off in to the east and increasing in height. It never changed speed and the color and glow never changed. I watched it until it disappeared amongst the stars very very high in the sky in the distance. There was no noise at all. No engine sound. There was no wind at the time. I have no explanation what this was that I saw. It was not a hot air balloon as it moved too fast and there are no hot air balloons in this area ever. It came from the ocean direction as I live just 4 houses from the ocean. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she seemed to us to be quite sincere and sober-minded. We suspect that she is a very good witness. PD