UFO Over Miami, FL 3/23/08
While trawling through the recent UFO reports in MUFON’s database, I came across this video of a UFO seen over Miami, Florida on 3/23. While there is not much detail in the video and there is definitely a lot of air traffic over Miami (both legal and illegal), I feel this video may have some merit and deserves to at least be investigated further:
From the report to MUFON:
I stepped outside and noticed a very large orange glow to my left.
I saw this “acorn-shaped” object growing in size- hovering over the rooftops. It was transparent on the bottom half. I ran inside and grabbed my Sony HandyCam Hi8– and yelled for my girlfriend to come see. By the time I started filming, it was already moving away and shrinking.
Additionally, a commenter on the YouTube page claimed to have seen the same or similar craft much further to the south somewhere in the Caribbean on the same night.
The lack of any strobe or marker lights in the video, lead me to believe that this is not video of an aircraft. There are what appear to be stars in the background at one point in the video as well as a brief clip of a railing of some sort as the cameraman lowers camera after the object disappears. Unfortunately, the poor low light performance of the camera leaves us with very little detail in the clip to give us any clues to the objects altitude, location or size. Despite these shortcomings, I believe this is a valid video of an object in the sky that is not an aircraft following civil aviation regulations and may very well be some sort of unknown craft. What you believe, is up to you. Let me know what you think in the comments.
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April 17th, 2008 at 9:05 am
Thank you for posting this video. I am the person that filmed this video and my name on youtube is ectoplaz. I have some more videos under this name. I accidentally posted this originally to my girlfriends page Sheryanne.
I am an investigator for MUFON but cannot investigate my own case- but by posting this video on youtube- I thought maybe someone had seen this object before and could help provide answers. The original video is very clear and shows the object traversing a roofline in the distance. I had switched the camera to nightvision without looking though the LCD screen to see that I completely messed up the shot. Regardless, the object did not disappear as it seems in the youtube video. When the object started moving away to the NW from the camera, I zoomed and adjusted focus. Then the object dimmed down into a funnel of light as I was panning- a very close palm tree eventually blocks the camera- making the object seemingly disappear. These events are very clear on the original video when played on a TV with the brightness turned up just a bit. Feel free to email me any questions.
Alex
May 24th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I live in Ontario, Canada and I saw this last night when I took the dogs out. I ran back inside to get my boyfriend to look at it. The “UFO” was very bright and was travelling quickly. I was just before 10pm EST. I watch it pass overhead - it took about 10 mins for it to finally go out of sight.