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What did I just see in Siesta Key?

6:13 PM on the gulf side of Siesta Key.
I watched it until it disappeared around the coastline and never saw any sort of port/starboard nav lights. As you can see in this video, it was moving pretty fast. It was completely silent and seemed to produce enough light to illuminate the surrounding water a small amount.

Doing some very rough math, we can estimate ROUGHLY the speed of this light. In the 12 second video, I pan roughly 30° to the right. I was able to see coastline above this, which at eye level, means it was less than 3 miles away. If it it was 1.5 miles away, trigonometry says it traveled roughly a mile, in 12 seconds, comes out to about 260 miles per hour. I trust that guess, because I have been watching passenger jets fly over at roughly that speed this entire trip, and it looked to be going roughly that speed.

I am just providing information about what I saw here. I am a believer, but I don’t want to seem like I am pushing any of my conclusions here.