Red, blue and white flashing objest viewed over the Gulf of Mexico from Spring Hill Florida
I first noticed a very bright star due west of my home on 8/19/2009 at approximately 11pm EST. The object appeared to be over the Gulf of Mexico. I live in a small town just north of Tampa called Weeki Wachee I was by myself and at first I thought that I was seeing a very bright sparkly star throwing off a lot of light, mainly blue, red and white. I looked at other stars in the sky to see if it was just me and I looked back at this one bright star. I was definitely different. With my naked eye, I could clearly make out a red, blue and white light, flashing like night aircraft lights. I questioned myself and thought, this has to be a plane but it did not move.
I was outside at the time, so I came in and looked through a strong pair of binoculars. How I would describe the object is as follows; the object was quite some distance away from my home over the Gulf of Mexico. It appears to have a shape similar to a box kite. Two rectangles, one at the top and bottom and some kind of connecting piece, thin, between the rectangles, just like a box kite. The red and blue color flashes switched between the top and bottom rectangles while the connecting piece remained a bright shining white.
I was able to witness this for at lease 10 minutes before the object went behind the clouds and never reappeared. I did not see the object again until last night, 8/31/2009 at 10:30 pm EST. It appeared in the same spot in the sky, mid way up on the horizon. This time my wife was home and she too witnessed this flashing light. Same colors, no movement and like before. It stayed visible for at least 10 minutes before it disappeared behind the clouds.
I first noticed a very bright star due west of my home on 8/19/2009 at approximately 11pm EST. The object appeared to be over the Gulf of Mexico. I live in a small town just north of Tampa called Weeki Wachee I was by myself and at first I thought that I was seeing a very bright sparkly star throwing off a lot of light, mainly blue, red and white. I looked at other stars in the sky to see if it was just me and I looked back at this one bright star. I was definitely different. With my naked eye, I could clearly make out a red, blue and white light, flashing like night aircraft lights. I questioned myself and thought, this has to be a plane but it did not move.
I was outside at the time, so I came in and looked through a strong pair of binoculars. How I would describe the object is as follows; the object was quite some distance away from my home over the Gulf of Mexico. It appears to have a shape similar to a box kite. Two rectangles, one at the top and bottom and some kind of connecting piece, thin, between the rectangles, just like a box kite. The red and blue color flashes switched between the top and bottom rectangles while the connecting piece remained a bright shining white.
I was able to witness this for at lease 10 minutes before the object went behind the clouds and never reappeared. I did not see the object again until last night, 8/31/2009 at 10:30 pm EST. It appeared in the same spot in the sky, mid way up on the horizon. This time my wife was home and she too witnessed this flashing light. Same colors, no movement and like before. It stayed visible for at least 10 minutes before it disappeared behind the clouds.
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Weeki Wachee
USA
10 minutes
10 minutes
rectangle
FL
Occurred : 8/19/2009 23:00 (Entered as : 08/19/2009 23:00) Reported: 9/1/2009 11:14:47 AM 11:14 Posted: 12/12/2009 Location: Weeki Wachee, FL Shape: Rectangle Duration: 10 minutes Characteristics: There were lights on the object, The object changed color
Red, blue and white flashing objest viewed over the Gulf of Mexico from Spring Hill Florida