Did you just see a UFO in SoWal??!

[LuciferSam]

LS, your neighborhood is obviously a lot more "happening" than mine.

I realize now it was demons from the underworld. I don't know what I was thinking at the time!

 

[ChillPill]

The lights are out there again right now. Oops. two minutes later they're gone again.

 

[beachmouse]

We're getting some big booms out here to the west.

 

[sunspotbaby]

:shock:

 

[Jdarg]

The lights are out there again right now. Oops. two minutes later they're gone again.

Just saw them! Driving north on 395, going past Publix. I looked to the north and saw 3 big orange lights lined up horizontally. Lost sight of them because of the forest, and drove to the end of Bay Dr., but they were gone!

 

[Mightyern]

Holy Moly! Jdarg, I came home from shopping on Tuesday evening and saw them from my drive way facing north toward the area of maybe....Chevron at 98/393 area. I lost it after moving from the driveway to my yard but it was indeed a strange sight!

 

[Will B]

My guess is that they are parachute flares dropped during some exercises over the bay to illuminate the water below for some spooky type of night military manouvers. They burn around 800,000 candlepower and take forever to drop due to the hot air keeping them more bouyant than a chute with nothing under it.
These may be an old style as I found the picture in the Air Force Museum page, but the modern ones are probably very close...

When I was a kid, Eglin used to drop them over the gulf all the time. We could see them from our porch clear as day...

 

[beachmouse]

We're now up to three straight nights of 3-4 very large door-shakin' booms between 11:35-11:55pm.

 

[Bluewater]

Yes I saw the 3 lights over the Bay the night before last night. They are 3 bright lights that linger over the Bay. My guess is that these are military maneurvers. Helicopters drop military into the Bay, and hover over the bay. The soldiers must swim to the back side of the Bay at the park @ Choctaw Beach. They are then picked up by convoys. I've seen them picked up at the park late at night after they are dropped into the Bay late at night. Usually the Mid Bay bridge is lit up at night when the military are practicing their maneuvers, so that the bridge is visible to the aircraft at night.

 

[Kurt]

I saw them from 395 and it looked like they were over the bay between the Shallows and the bridge. I stopped and watched them for 2 minutes and they were absolutely stationary. They could have been helicopters but someone on the bayshore or bridge would have seen or heard them.

The other alternative is that they were over Eglin land which would have put them much farther from me and thus far brighter and larger.