MUFON News 9/28/2016

Florida witness describes hovering disc UFO
Posted by: Roger Marsh  September 28, 2016

A Florida witness at St. Augustine reported watching a disc-shaped UFO
hovering in the night sky before moving out over the ocean, according
to testimony in Case 79397 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness
reporting database.

The witness is a MUFON Field Investigator who was taking out the trash
at 9:39 p.m. on September 25, 2016, when the incident began.

"As I watched my garage door go up, immediately in front of me was a
UFO hovering in alignment over the house across the street, but
farther behind it," the witness stated. "See house photo which shows
my neighbor's house, but in daylight."

The witness immediately recognized the object as something unusual.

"My first thought was `OMG a UFO!' It was way too big for a plane. A
second later as the lights strobed and reflected off the body I
realized the lights were a wrong color(too much blue) for a plane, and
it was far too big and too slow to be a plane, slower than even a slow
helicopter. My vision is about 20/35 without my glasses, so I ran
inside to get my glasses. It was hovering at about 30 degrees in
elevation and 10 degrees north.The sky was mostly clear with only a
few clouds (cloud base 3,100-6,500 feet according to the weather
report), wind northeast at 8 mph, temperature was 78 degrees and
humidity was 78 percent."

The witness described the object.

  "It was disc-shaped, but had sharp points on the top and bottom.
  There was a larger oval, very bright, white light on the top point
  that blinked, not strobed. That light was so bright it hurt my eyes.
  Surrounding the object along its side were strobing multi-colored
  lights that strobed from white/blue/green/red/ yellow very quickly.
  They reflected off the body that seemed to be dull gray, but
  sometimes looked dull amber depending on the color of the lights
  strobing at the moment. Its speed was quite slow, slower than a slow
  helicopter."

The object also turned off its lights.

  "Twice, all of its lights went out at once for about two seconds and
  then the lights came back on as it hovered in the same place.
  Initially it hovered for about two minutes over the house, (I
  counted 110 seconds after I retrieved my glasses) and then it headed
  east for about 10 seconds, stopped for 2-3 seconds, headed back west
  for about 10 seconds, stopped for 2-3 seconds, and then headed
  southeast.It had significant sideways movement as described, but its
  altitude did not change much other than slight wobbling."

The object also moved into a cloud at one point.

  "Once it went inside a cloud, the cloud lit up with the
  multi-colored lights and then it came out of the cloud, so its
  elevation was at least 3,100 feet, meaning it had to be pretty big
  to appear penny-size at arm's length and 3,100 feet up."

The object soon moved away.

  "It moved slowly southeast of me and I lost sight of it when it was
  behind some woods. From its height and distance, it should have been
  over the Atlantic Ocean at that point. From the direction it moved,
  it may have been over downtown St. Augustine and/or St. Augustine
  Beach at some point, so I wonder if MUFON will get more reports. I
  watched it for a total of approximately six minutes. There were no
  animal or psychological effects and no missing time."

St. Augustine is a city in northeastern Florida, the county seat of
St. Johns County, population 13,679. MUFON Florida State Section
Director Thomas Branham and Field Investigator Julie Taylor are
investigating. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be
explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were
edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.

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About Roger Marsh

Roger Marsh is a UFO writer and content developer. He is Director of
Communications for the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) where he manages
media contact, rights and permissions, and content development for
television, film, documentary, radio, print and stage. Roger is a
MUFON case researcher for History channel's "Hangar 1: The UFO Files."
He is editor of the monthly international MUFON UFO Journal, executive
producer of the weekly "MUFON UFO Traffic Report" radio show; serves
as the MUFON webmaster; is editor of the bi-monthly international
MUFON Newsletter, reporter for the daily "UFO Traffic Report" and
publisher of the "MUFON Books" imprint. He is the author of Sacred
Dialogue, editor of Silent Invasion, and co-editor of Ron Paul Speaks.
Roger was featured in the 2015 season premiere episode of Destination
America's "Monsters & Mysteries in America." His one-act radio-style
drama series, "UFO Witness Theater" continues this year on MUFON radio
as featured 45-minute episodes. His comedy and paranormal original
books, novelettes, plays and films are available at
rogermarsh.moonfruit.com. Roger and his wife, Joyce, live in
Scottdale, Pennsylvania, restoring a 1910 Pennsylvania four-square.


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