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UFO. United States

ID #1514892215
Added Tue, 02/01/2018
Author July N.
Sources
Phenomena
Status
Investigation

Initial data

Initial information from sources or from an eyewitness
Incident date: 
01.01.2018 00:30
Location: 
Орландо, FL
United States

Witness the family arrived in Orlando (FL) to celebrate the New year. January 1, about half the first morning they went to their hotel from Universal Studios Orlando when I first saw these lights. All four people in the car, witnessed the emergence of a strange group of lights in the sky. First, they decided that it was just a spotlight, but the lights began to move in a circle, gathered in the center in one big circle and is again split into many small ones. This action in the sky lasted for several hours. The witness took a few photos.

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Original news

My family and I were at Universal Studios Orlando in Orlando, Florida for the New Year's Eve celebration on 12/31/17 and left the park and got to our car at approximately 12:30am on 1/1/18. We began driving south to our hotel (approximately 4 miles south of the park) via International Drive when we first saw the lights. All 3 individuals in my car witnessed this. None of the 3 individuals had taken any drugs/alcohol/excessive sugar/anything that could affect our vision or judgement. At first, we saw what looked like a very large spotlight in the sky, which wasn't too unusual being that it was New Year's. The spotlight moved very rapidly in a circular motion and split up into various smaller-looking spotlights. They seemed to zoom around erratically for a few seconds, then reformed into the larger spotlight. It then broke up again and zoomed around erratically. It reformed into the larger spotlight then broke up into 10 smaller spotlights and formed a semi-circle in the sky, which then remained stationary. We arrived at our hotel and they were still visible; these smaller spotlights then remained stationary in the sky until at least 2am, when I had to (unfortunately) go to bed. They mostly stayed the same the whole time, the only change I really noticed was that over time the lights somewhat dissipated and became duller, but stayed in the exact same shape the whole time. I will attach two photos I took. I felt incredulous throughout the whole ordeal, and kept thinking, "Is this real life? Are we being attacked in this new year?" I didn't feel threatened though, I almost felt as if they were extraterrestrial, all they wanted was to observe our new year's celebration or something? It was very strange that not too many other cars or people nearby seemed to even look up or care. The lights were very apparent in the sky, I just hope that someone else in Orlando saw these same lights.

Hypotheses

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Light sources on clouds

Lasers, searchlights, car headlights and other light sources of sufficient power can form a column of light in a dusty or foggy atmosphere, various patterns on low clouds, fog or haze. Also, the rays can highlight parts of the cloud, objects or birds, giving them bizarre shapes.

Searchlights can shine with one beam, several. They can be stationary, move, and also form spinning carousels on the clouds, which can change shape and color.

It often seems that the light source is located at the point where the beam hits the cloud, and not vice versa.

Investigation

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The appearance of the object visible in the photograph, and described by the eyewitness of the movement characteristic of the floodlight reflected on the low clouds.

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