1947 or 1948: Jacksonville Florida One Big Bright Light

THINK ABOUTIT SIGHTING REPORT

Date: 1947 or 1948

Sighting Time:

Day/Night: Night

Location: Jacksonville, Florida

Urban or Rural: –

Hynek Classification: NL (Nocturnal Light) Point or extended luminous source observed at night.

Duration:

No. of Object(s): Multiple

Size of Object(s): Big

Distance to Object(s): 20 mile out

Shape of Object(s):

Color of Object(s): out of this real bright light three smaller bright lights

Number of Witnesses: Mass

Source:

Summary/Description: In your report about 1940s you missed a big one, In the summer of 1947 or 1948 in Jacksonville Florida I was about 10 years old when my whole family saw one big bright light in the sky about 20 mile out at about 10,000 feet, and out of this real bright light three smaller bright lights came out and sat there for about a minute. Then they would shoot across the sky in different directions, I would say 20 miles from the starting point and they would come to a complete stop, and some times they would sit there for a little bit and shoot off into a different direction. All three of the smaller lights would move in this matter. The real bight light stayed in the same location, about a hour of this they returned to the big bright light and it just disappeared.

This happen about 3 or 4 days in a row, in the same location in the sky. Approx: half the city called in to report this action they saw in the sky and the newspaper put a story in the paper about these lights because so many people saw them across the city. A lot of people thought that is was going to be the end of the world.

The reason I can tell the different in altitude and distance is because I am a pilot, with lots of hours of flight time in my own aircraft, this was one time in my life that scared me and my whole family.

If I knew how to get the record from the newspaper, I sure I could download it for you because after three days they didn’t say another word about it. The military said they had no aircraft in the air at that time. These lights were traveling at over approx: 10,000 mile a hour or more and they didn’t make a sound. At the time they were training pilots in PBYs at a Navy Base and you could hear them 30 miles away, that’s how much noise they made. So it was not any air plane, the jet aircraft was not in production at that time and they could not fly at that speed even if there were. This is the only UFO experience that I have had in my life time.. and I can assure you that they are out there.