An Orlando, FL, witness
reported a possible UFO captured on a digital camera after shooting a series of
sky images from the World Center Marriott Resort, according to January 27,
2014, testimony in Case 53770 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness
reporting database.
The witness only noticed
"a curving brighter line in the clouds" at 7:11 a.m. on January 24,
2014, while taking a series of three images in a panorama style, thought it was
a jet contrail, and only noticed the odd photo days later on the computer.
"When I blew the image
up to 1:1 pixel view I was astounded to see that my 'contrail' was actually a
sharply defined disc resting in the clouds about 15-20 degrees above the
horizon," the witness stated. The disc was tilted toward me, the top
partially obscured by the clouds but the bright edge of the disc very clearly
visible."
The witness submitted Image
1 and Image 2 with the MUFON report.
"The image was taken
with an Olympus OM-D E-M5 using an Olympus 14-150mm lens at 14mm. The E-M5 is a
micro 4/3 camera and the short side of the image at 14mm covers approx 45
degrees. By laying a grid over the image I was able to determine that the diameter
of the disc was covering approximately 2 degrees. Guesstimating that the object
might be as much as 5-10 miles away I concluded that the size of the disc might
be about 850-1700 feet. The image of the disc appears on two of the three
overlapping images I made for the pano. There are only a few seconds elapsed
between the two images and the disc shows no apparent motion. I am attaching
the jpeg image of the pano I created along with a 1:1 pixel crop of the area
showing the disc which is located at the lower left of the pano."
Florida is a current UFO
ALERT 3 rating, with a high number of UFO sightings nationally. Florida had 33
reports in December 2013 - while California had 68 reports - the highest
reporting state in the nation.
You can read more details
about other recently reported cases at the UFO Examiner home page.
The above quotes were
edited for clarity. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained
as something natural or man-made. Some of the above witness descriptions do
match Chinese Lanterns. If Florida MUFON investigates and reports back on this
case, I will release an update. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
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