Description

Time: September 25, ~Noon

Location: Treasure Island, FL

Duration: 10-15 minutes

Conditions: 90F+, Clear Skies

Crystal clear skies. Looking north. UFO moved East to West about 30 degrees above the horizon. Not a cloud in the sky for reference, so gaging elevation and distance was nearly impossible. If I had to guess, it was somewhere around a helicopter or low-flying plane. Image shows my personal estimation of the distance observed being traveled over span of about 10-16 minutes. The further away it was, the larger and higher up it would have had to been. The "sus" label is over MacDill AFB, which is in the direction of origin.

I was facing North and just happened to notice it. Thought it was a far away helicopter or something. However, it seemed too close and to take up too much area for me to not be able to make it out clearly, which is what it looked like to the eye. Something that should be within visible range, yet it is not, it is distorted and visually shifting. The skies were crystal clear, best visibility there is. After about 1 minute, I decided it was anomolous, and decided to keep locked onto it while walking over to companions and pointed it out to them. One tried video recording it while the other was taking pics and I kept locked on visually so we didn't lose it. This was very difficult to do, because we were on the beach at the time, the sun was high and behind us as we looked at this thing. Our phone screens, even at full brightness, basically looked like mirrors. We could only hope we were capturing it, and check it out later off the beach to really tell what we got. All of the video attempts showed nothing, the vast majority of picture attempts showed nothing, EXCEPT for these 5, all taken in a row. I'm gonna try to put them up in chronological order. They should be raw, exactly as taken by my companion.

My personal description at the time of what I witnessed with my eyes: "A moving area of distortion, like distorted light or space, with intermittent flashing lights (blinking or glinting, I didn't know) mostly white in color, although I did notice very infrequent red and orange coloring perhaps on some of the flashes or other weird shapes going on; as throughout the area alongside the flashes were there also dark (or more defined, edgelike?) lines or shapes coming in and out of vision, seeming to stretch and then ebb." I know this description sounds absolutely insane and all over the place, but it is honestly the best I can do. It was honestly overwhelming, there was too much randomness to mentally note it all, but I did my best.

I originally inquired a meteorologist who said he would get back to me, but never did. I tried posting them on here before but ran into discouraging issues each time. I'm not very post-fluent on this website. This time, however, I am making a backup of the whole post so if I can easily redo it if necessary. The recent egg story has given me the motivation to do this again and hopefully get it out there for good. In a couple of the pictures, one could argue that the light is egg-shaped in appearance. One of our original theories was that it was a spaceX pod, as in one of the pictures you can see, it could resemble a glinting metal pod in a tumble with a parachute deploying. However, I don't really believe it is, because of the location and direction. I think that it is either some crazy atmospheric effect on a far-away aircraft, or advanced technology (military or extraterrestrial etc.) What do you guys think?