1999-02-16 - Navarre Beach (other end of pensacola beach, FL - Light

while exiting a mardi gras parade at pensacola beach we notice a red light in night sky that brightened to white then faded to red

on tuesday 16feb99 at about 1900 we were in a queue that was exiting pensacola beach by way of navarre bch which is at the other end of this island across from gulf breeze. after leaving the city lights behind there are few lights, just dunes on either side of the road and no homes until you're in navarre bch itself. so stars are brilliant. after driving for about 15 minutes i said to my husband who was driving. what is that crazy helo doing boxing up there? my husband said he noticed it too. i asked him whether he'd every seen a helo go from red to bright white light the fade to red again.we thought this helo was from localTV covering parade so we weren't too excited, but we noticed that boxing was stationary over this specific portion of sky and that there were 3 other lights in sky doing similar patterns. we were able along withrest of line of cars to come almost under these light but we found that 2 lights were over navarre sound and 2 were over the gulf. there are alot of curves on this road so untilwe got closer we thought they wereover land. also EglinAF base was to the NE of us and NAS pensacola was nearly NW of where we were. Convinced these were helos we rolled down our windows, but heard no sounds other than roar of traffic. I have lived on military installations for about 15 years and never have witness these types of manuevers. myself, husband and my 3 children witness this from our car. even as we approached gulf breeze we could see these 4 lights but they moved so that 2 were over pensacola sound and 2 were over 2 navarre sound so direction they moved was north. again we were almost onvinced that these were helos but after rolling down windows we heard no sound.