Sunking's GulfBreeze UFO

From 1981 thru 2002 I lived in Gulf Breeze, Fla, the famous hotbed of UFO activity, especially in the late 1980's and 90's. In 1990, when this story takes place, I lived in Seabreeze Villas on Southwind Drive. At around 11pm, it was a fairly cold March night when I stepped from my den to the backyard patio to have a smoke (Marlboro!). It was a clear night, not yet a full moon and the stars were glittering. As I looked to the west-south-west I noticed something odd...a red glowing object shaped like a Marine Lance Corporal's chevron rocker at about a 35 degree angle of elevation from the ground. This crudely drawn picture gives you an idea what it looked like, although it looked smaller due to the distance. From my vantage point (approximately 4.5 miles east of Gulf Breeze proper) I estimated that this object was 3.5+ miles from me, over the Intracostal Waterway and near the Gulf Islands National Seashore Park east of Gulf Breeze.

The object remained stationary, but suddenly a shape like a quarter note in musical notation 'grew' from the bottom side and seemed to be lowered 'on a string', as I attempt to portray above. This 'nodule' continued to lower until all that was visible was the object and the 'string'. I was astounded! I had been in the aviation side of the US Navy, a lifelong student of aircraft and had lived in this area surrounded by 2 Naval Air Stations, Eglin AFB and Hurlburt Field...I knew my aircraft, and this was not one of them.

I said to myself "I gotta have a witness to this!". So I opened tha sliding glass door and called for my wife, fast asleep in the bedroom, several times...to no avail. Not wanting to miss anything, but desperately wanting her to see this, too, I ran to the bedroom and dragged her from the bed and out into the cold night. Unfortunately, the nodule and string were no longer visible and the object was moving to the east and due south of my position. This drawing again protrays what we saw.

As the object drew closer to the moon, it again became stationary. I said, "Look, honey...it's a UFO!". Wifey said, "Honey, come on in the house.". I love her, but I could tell she was not in the least wise interested...and she would deny the existense of the Devil if He appeared in front of her, simply to avoid having to deal with the bad news and possible worse consequences. Regardless, as we continued to watch, the object began to pulsate and the color gradually darkened until it became a dark, blood red.


Color and pulsation intensified, until suddenly the object tuned white...and not Clorox bleach white! I mean bright, starlight white ... stunning and brilliant and lighting up the sky around it, as again I poorly attempt to portray, at right. It was a remarkable sight...my heart was beating and I had stopped breathing! And then...the darn thing just disappeared from sight! WHOA! I KNEW that I had just seen a UFO! And what a show it was.

"Wasn't that fantastic, honey?", I asked my wife. "Come to bed soon dear", she said..."I don't want the little green men to scoop you up"! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.

A couple of days later, at the urging of some UFO enthusiasts at Chip's Gym, where I worked out, I called MUFON and was paid a visit by their rep. I think his name was Bland Pugh. Nice fellow and he asked all the right questions and I gave all the details. At the end I asked "Well, am I nuts?". He said "No", and told me that it was a confirmed UFO. He and the usual group of UFO watchers at Shoreline Park in Gulf Breeze proper had seen the same object, but they saw it from the side and the parallax was such that it hardly moved to their view. I had obviously had the best seat in the house.

And what a show it was!

I have searched countless UFO pictures and descriptions, trying to see if anyone else has seen a similar object. Or seen a UFO do what this one did. I would certainly like to know what was being lowered (or raised!) in or on the nodule. Maybe taking on water? Or emptying the intergalactic trashcan? It remains a mystery.

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