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SUBJECT: 11/86 SIGHTING IN FT. MYERS, FL. FILE: UFO1371
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Report #: 219
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From: UFO INFO SERVICE
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Date Sent: 02-15-1987
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Subject: FT.MYERS, FL
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CASE TYPE: LRS - NL
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DATE: 27 NOVEMBER 1986
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TIME: 22:00 HOURS
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CFN#: 0341
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DURATION: 15:MINUTES
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WITNESSES: MANY
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SOURCE: NEWS PRESS, FT MYERS, FL
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GREEN FLASH LIGHTS SKY ACROSS FLORIDA
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From News-Press Staff and Wirs Services
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Residents from Southwest Florida to the East Coast og the state Thursday
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reported seeing a green flash in the sky that lasted approximately 15 minutes,
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officials said.
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Callers reported the sighting between 10 and 10:30 P.M. to the Collier County
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Sheriff's office, an official their said. The sighting was also reported in
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Charlotte County, a Lee Sheriff's Department spokesman said. A short time
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after the west coast sighting, residents of the east coast of Florida saw
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a flare and then heard an explosion, according to a spokesman for the U.S.
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Coast Guard office in Fort Pierce.
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Some people even reported a loud sound similiar to thunder that shook houses,
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the Coast Guard office reported. Unconfirmed reports from across the state
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said the green streak across the sky was a meteorite which may have landed in
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the Atantic Ocean. Officials from Patrick Air Force Base in Cape Canaveral
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could not confirm that the sighting was a meteorte, but said the matter would
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be investigated today. It was the second time in a week that residents along
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Florida's Atlantic Coast reported seeing a flash of bright colored light
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streak across the late night sky.
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Last Friday, a streak of light seen in the night sky from Tampa to Jmaica
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produced a similar effect and was apparently produced by debris from a Soviet
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rocket passing through the Earth's atmosphere. A resident in the West Palm
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Beach area described the Thursday night light as bright yellow, white another
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in the area said the light started out red, turned to blue, then pink and
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yellow.
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Mike Palmeriti, an astronomer in Malabar, saw the light between 9:30 and 10:00
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p.m. He believed it was a "very strong flash of lightning." But Harold
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Povenmire, a professor at Brevard Community College and director of the
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Florida Fire Bill Patrol, said he is certain the flash of light was caused by
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a meteorite entering the atmosphere at 10:03 p.m..
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He also stated the light was preceded by a sonic boom that "rattled things
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around quite a bit."
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