Florida UFO Sightings in 1971

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Light in the sky that stopped time I was a young boy 9 or 10 living in Florida we where about to have bad weather. A large group of dark black clouds where rolling and I mean rolling in. The wind was blowing hard and 3 or 4 of us where in the back yard putting away things so not to get blown away.

Then as I stoped and looked up everything in the yard stoped moving the wind stoped blowing it was like the world stop. Everyone stayed still and it was like a freez frame in a movie. The whole yard got light like someone turned on a flood light overhead and I looked up and saw (1) large Triangle over our head with (1) bright light in the middle.

I could move but everyone else stop in mid movement No wind No sound. No one has every talked about it and I don't think they even remember it. About 1 to 2 Hours passed or was lost.

But I do.

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Orlando, Pine Hills Disk As a child in the early 70's (date in report is approximate), I was playing kickball with my friends in the street in the Pine Hills area near what is now Meadowbrook Middle School. All of a sudden, the girls started screaming and pointing at the sky. Looking up, I observed a disk shaped UFO with two rows of blinking light panels located on the bottom and around the perimeter of the disk.

I distinctly remember that as an inner panel glowed an outer panel was illuminated and vice versa. The panels turned on and off in a checkerboard pattern continuously and almost appeared flourescent. I say "almost" because no "bulb" was observed, either directly or as if hidden behind an opaque or transparent cover--the entire panel glowed evenly with no observable concentration of light.

The craft traveled from south to north no more than 50-60 feet above our heads. It moved very slowly, in complete silence, and then disappeared behind dense trees (what is now the area immediately south of North Lane in Pine Hills). The Orlando International Airport was a SAC strategic bomber base at the time and, as an adult, I now believe that the craft was somehow connected with the base.

I have no evidence to back that supposition. I find it interesting to note that a 1966 report and a 1976 report on this site also note glowing light panels. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate.

PD)).

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Seen full view ship hovering over trees 40 feet in air! 1971 about 5 pm my brother and I were outside when this ship was hovering over a stand of pine trees! It was 2-3 football fields in length! Made no noise! Had windows along the length of craft! I saw figures in windows but could not distinguish features! We ran inside screaming for father to come and look! By the time we got outside it had vanished!.

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I was in boot camp at Paris Island,S.C. Some of the platoon was in a smoking circle as was normal every night.

I noticed in the sky a large part of the sky began to look funny. It began to morph while remaining transparent. I noticed the stars in that segment of the sky began to glow funny.

Suddenly, one of the stars began to morph in shape. It began to elongate as if it were a cell dividing. Then just as suddenly as it began the process.

The star split into two individual stars. At that time many other stars about 10 began to go through the same process. I ran inside and got the D.

I. on duty at the time. He came out and watched it also.

Previous to him coming out I called it to the attention of everyone in the circle. Then suddenly it stopped and all the stars that had morphed into two stars stayed and the whole event stopped.

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SUMMARY: Sighted while driving across the Alley It was about midnight and a UFO crossed the highway in front of me at very low altitude. It was about 30 to 50 feet in diameter andgoing extremely fast. About one second behind it was an Air Force jet fighter.

The UFO was traveling much faster than the jet. They were so low that had it been daylight I could have read any markings on the jet. The UFO glowed very brightly and was the color of fluorescentl ight tubes.

This is all I know. Yes, I realize 26 years is a long time, but I thought itmight help verify someone else's sighting.