Oval over North of Sarasota, FL

The report, as filed

Last May 10th at 12:17 pm while on a United Airlines flight from Chicago somewhere between St. Petersburg and Sarasota, I took photos of some picturesque cloud formations with my Galaxy S21 Ultra camera that has a state-of-the-art camera. The plane had started it’s descent and was flying at cloud level. A week Later when started looking at the photos, I noticed a tiny white oval Tic-Tac shaped objects along-side the engine of the plane, and another just above it. They looked exactly like the Tic-Tacs the Navy pilots recorded that was released to the media several months ago. As I viewed each photo carefully, I found several Tic-Tacs, and others with oblong shapes that were gray or silverish color. The last photo was at 12:37. By that time the plane must have traveled 20-30 miles. It wasn’t a reflection from the plane’s interior since my phone was pressed against the window. Besides, the ovals in other pictures are seen at different quadrants of the photo frame. If it was from the interior, the ovals would always be in exactly the same place in each photo. Some photos had multiple ovals, or cylindrical shaped objects. Was it a reflection from the ground? I don’t think so because of the various locations in each picture, and the fact that the plane probably traveled 20-30 miles during that time. So if it was a ground reflection that would have to have travel the path of the airplane. Plus, many of the images were next to clouds. I don’t think clouds reflect images from the ground; otherwise, planes would constantly be flying through a mishmash of images reflected on the clouds. Some images were alone in the sky. There is a quick sequence of pictures (not enclosed) taken in relatively the same ground area, and each shows the progression of the ovals moving faster than the plane. I never noticed them when taking the pictures because they were small, I was focused on framing the clouds, and they must have been going faster than the plane. I was able to record these because the camera was set to auto, and since it was pointed at the bright sky, the meta-data on the JPEGs indicates the shutter speeds were from 1/1600 to 1/2000. This may explain why I was able to capture and freeze the image without too much blur; although after enlarging some of the pics, some images did show blurry movement. Enclosed is only a selection of photos. These are some of the highlights. I have many more. The only Photoshop alterations are on some of the JPEGS to crop and enlarge the images, and on a few of the oblong crafts where I tried to sharpen the image to possibly get some detail. If you are interested, I will supply you with all of the photos.

Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #165887). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.