Green flash lights sky above Florida
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Report #: 227
From: UFO INFO SERVICE
Date Sent: 02-15-1987
Location: FT.MYERS, FL
CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
DATE: 27 NOVEMBER 1986
TIME: 22:00 HOURS
CFN#: 0341
DURATION: 15:MINUTES
WITNESSES: MANY
SOURCE: NEWS PRESS, FT MYERS, FL
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GREEN FLASH LIGHTS SKY ACROSS FLORIDA
From News-Press Staff and Wirs Services
Residents from Southwest Florida to the East
Coast og the state Thursday reported seeing a
green flash in the sky that lasted approximately
15 minutes, officials said.
Callers reported the sighting between 10 and 10:30
P.M. to the Collier County Sheriff's office, an
official their said. The sighting was also reported
in Charlotte County, a Lee Sheriff's Department
spokesman said. A short time after the west coast
sighting, residents of the east coast of Florida saw
a flare and then heard an explosion, according to a
spokesman for the U.S. Coast Guard office in Fort
Pierce.
Some people even reported a loud sound similiar to
thunder that shook houses, the Coast Guard office
reported. Unconfirmed reports from across the state
said the green streak across the sky was a meteorite
which may have landed in the Atantic Ocean. Officials
from Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral could
not confirm that the sighting was a meteorte, but said
the matter would be investigated today. It was the
second time in a week that residents along Florida's
Atlantic Coast reported seeing a flash of bright
colored light streak across the late night sky.
Last Friday, a streak of light seen in the night sky
from Tampa to Jmaica produced a similar effect and was
apparently produced by debris from a Soviet rocket
passing through the Earth's atmosphere. A resident in
the West Palm Beach area described the Thursday night
light as bright yellow, white another in the area said
the light started out red, turned to blue, then pink
and yellow.
Mike Palmeriti, an astronomer in Malabar, saw the light
between 9:30 and 10:00 p.m. He believed it was a "very
strong flash of lightning." But Harold Povenmire, a
professor at Brevard Community College and director of
the Florida Fire Bill Patrol, said he is certain the
flash of light was caused by a meteorite entering the
atmosphere.
of
the Florida Fire Bill Patrol, said he is certain the
flash of light was caused by a me
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