Appearance / Description of Object(s)

See above.

Size of Object(s)

Unknwon

Distance to Object(s) & Altitude

Distance - 150 feet Altitude - 40 Feet

Description of Area / Surroundings

Unincorporated Dade County. Large blocks with nice houses. About 1 NM NNW of old Parrot Jungle.

Full Description & Details

It was definitely New Years Eve, on January 1st, 1971, or 1972, at 12:15 A.M. I was walking home from a New Years Eve party held at some friends house the next street over. There house was on 61st Court. We lived on 62nd Court. So the shortest path back home was to cross the east side of 61st Street and walk through their across-the-street neighbors yard.

Our house was on about one acre with about 3/4 acre woods in back. There was a path through our woods that brought you up to our back yard.

As I was approaching our woods to get home that evening, something told me to turn around. At this moment I was standing on the edge of the woods when I turned around and looked back over across the street to my friends' back yard. Just above one of their Dade County Pine trees was what looked like the full moon - but it couldn't have been. No full moons on this planet rise just after midnight! It was a bright-amber sphere just floating above the tree top.

I then ran back to the house where the party had been to tell them. I knocked on Connie's bedroom window, but I believe I was told she had already gone to bed. This part seems very odd when I look back. So I went back home and telephoned a friend about this. He said to call the television stations about this event. I did. I called WLBW, channel 10 and WTVJ, channel 4. I was told that others had indeed witnessed some strange lights because they were called in. The answer to my question about what it was? Some testing or something at Cape Canaveral, 200 miles north! I never did beleive that assessment.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?

No

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