Two VERY bright glowing objects moving from north to south over Polk County on New Year's eve, 2019
I was born and raised in the Orlando area for over 22 years, have lived in Lakeland for 31 years and have seen probably 75+ launches of rockets (including satellites, Apollo missions, space shuttle launches, Space X launches) in my 57 years of life. I have been a pilot for 32 years and worked in the airline industry for 17 years. Last night (New Year’s eve-12/31/19), my wife and I saw something I have never seen before. We were pulling into our subdivision at 22:45 and to the east of Lakeland (probably over Winter Haven) we both witnessed a VERY bright, orange glowing oval shaped object. It was not ascending or descending. It was moving at the same altitude from a northern to southern direction. It resembled what a night rocket launch looks like from a distance-without a smoke trail, but in a horizontal, not vertical attitude. I stopped my car, got out and started filming it on my phone. Suddenly, another one appeared behind the first one. As the second object disappeared behind a tree, I got back into the car and sped to my house one minute away. I ran to my backyard and out onto my dock on our lake where I could have had an unobstructed view of the two objects to the east. When I got out there…90 seconds or so after seeing the last object, they were both no longer visible. I stayed out there for 3-4 more minutes scanning the sky in 360 degrees and could not locate the again.
I was born and raised in the Orlando area for over 22 years, have lived in Lakeland for 31 years and have seen probably 75+ launches of rockets (including satellites, Apollo missions, space shuttle launches, Space X launches) in my 57 years of life. I have been a pilot for 32 years and worked in the airline industry for 17 years. Last night (New Year’s eve-12/31/19), my wife and I saw something I have never seen before. We were pulling into our subdivision at 22:45 and to the east of Lakeland (probably over Winter Haven) we both witnessed a VERY bright, orange glowing oval shaped object. It was not ascending or descending. It was moving at the same altitude from a northern to southern direction. It resembled what a night rocket launch looks like from a distance-without a smoke trail, but in a horizontal, not vertical attitude. I stopped my car, got out and started filming it on my phone. Suddenly, another one appeared behind the first one. As the second object disappeared behind a tree, I got back into the car and sped to my house one minute away. I ran to my backyard and out onto my dock on our lake where I could have had an unobstructed view of the two objects to the east. When I got out there…90 seconds or so after seeing the last object, they were both no longer visible. I stayed out there for 3-4 more minutes scanning the sky in 360 degrees and could not locate the again.
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Lakeland
USA
3 minutes
3 minutes
28.05
-81.97
oval
FL
Occurred : 12/31/2019 22:45 (Entered as : 12/31/19 22:45) Reported: 1/1/2020 8:33:32 AM 08:33 Posted: 2/7/2020 Location: Lakeland, FL Shape: Oval Duration: 3 minutes
Two VERY bright glowing objects moving from north to south over Polk County on New Year's eve, 2019