Large "ball" of light separates into three smaller light objects
On the evening of December 29, 2012, at approximately 5:50PM,I was walking my dog down our street, heading in a west-southwesterly direction.
The sun was almost finished setting, and the sky was mostly clear.
As I was looking up into the sky, which I regularly do when dog-walking, I noticed a "star" that was as bright as Venus, but in a different location. Venus, at that time of night, is almost directly due East. This "light" was on a south-southwest path in the sky...looking up, it was also about 70-75 degrees above the horizon.
At first I thought it was coming towards me, and that the "big light" was the headlights of a jet. Then I realized that it was going AWAY from me, and that the quality of the light coming from it was different to that of a jet headlight...more like it was lit from within. With this understanding, the dog and I stopped in our front yard...I watched.
As I looked on, the "light object" dimmed a bit, then, SPLIT INTO 3 separate smaller objects. Each one, though not as bright as the original, was also a "ball of light."
As soon as they were clearly separated from one another, they took off in 3 different directions...1 took a more southerly route, 1 went straight forward for a second then shot straight UP, and the third one banked sharply to the right (my right) and headed on a north-northwest trajectory.
The time that elapsed between separation and all 3 being no longer visible was about 15-20 seconds.
As for a time frame, from first sighting to the end, the entire event lasted around 45 seconds to a minute.
On the evening of December 29, 2012, at approximately 5:50PM,I was walking my dog down our street, heading in a west-southwesterly direction.
The sun was almost finished setting, and the sky was mostly clear.
As I was looking up into the sky, which I regularly do when dog-walking, I noticed a "star" that was as bright as Venus, but in a different location. Venus, at that time of night, is almost directly due East. This "light" was on a south-southwest path in the sky...looking up, it was also about 70-75 degrees above the horizon.
At first I thought it was coming towards me, and that the "big light" was the headlights of a jet. Then I realized that it was going AWAY from me, and that the quality of the light coming from it was different to that of a jet headlight...more like it was lit from within. With this understanding, the dog and I stopped in our front yard...I watched.
As I looked on, the "light object" dimmed a bit, then, SPLIT INTO 3 separate smaller objects. Each one, though not as bright as the original, was also a "ball of light."
As soon as they were clearly separated from one another, they took off in 3 different directions...1 took a more southerly route, 1 went straight forward for a second then shot straight UP, and the third one banked sharply to the right (my right) and headed on a north-northwest trajectory.
The time that elapsed between separation and all 3 being no longer visible was about 15-20 seconds.
As for a time frame, from first sighting to the end, the entire event lasted around 45 seconds to a minute.
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Orlando
USA
45-60 seconds
45-60 seconds
28.51
-81.38
light
FL
Occurred : 12/29/2012 17:50 (Entered as : 12/29/12 17:50) Reported: 1/5/2013 10:04:09 AM 10:04 Posted: 2/4/2013 Location: Orlando, FL Shape: Light Duration: 45-60 seconds
Large "ball" of light separates into three smaller light objects.