Size of Object(s): same as above.
Distance to Object(s): about 8 miels away and the cloud bank was about 400 to 600 feet high in elevation.

Appearance / Description of Object(s)
three beams, one pencil thin,then one the size of a football field in length, then a third beam also pencil shaped in width. observed from about 8 miels away approximetly 400 or 600 ft high. they were reddish orange very florecent like an actual ray beam. best possible discription is something outve startrek teletransporter.

Description of Area / Surroundings
the city skyline and its buildings could be seen from the appartment complex, and aloma road 436 road a major heaveliy trafficed route clouse to the city of winterpark a suburb of downtown orlando.

Full Description & Details
we were outside on the portch of my freinds apartment looking at the sky when bam!!! just like that we saw these three beams of lights. there was at least 10 secounds between each beam. the crazy thing about it is one of the beams was at least the size of a football field. the beams did not go all the way down to the ground, they very briefly paused at the point in whitch they stopped and then shot back-up into the thick cloud bank that was directly over downtown orlando. we had been having rain and thunderstorm earlier that night and it had cleared up around midnight new years eve. i was spending the night with my good friend mike edgeington, his girl freind was spending the new years with her parents out of town. we had stepped outside to smoke a ciggaret and get some fresh air as it had stopped raining and it was about to turn into the new year; when we saw the beams. we talked about it for a long time and we come to the conclussion that a very very large unseen craft had hidden in the clould bank over the city of orlando. its not near the air port but its close to known air routes. i absolutely positive that those beams were not from a man made craft!!! no not a search light not a blimplite not from a plane in the clouds . i dont know for sure what it was but i know what it wasnt. i aformer marine, i was in an infantry unit 2nd battalion 7th marines regiment from 1986-1990 and i haven been on many helicopters and seen many conventional aircraft in my day and i have never seen anything that looks like what we saw. it was like something outve science fiction.

Can sighting be explained as any conventional man-made or natural object?
absolutely not man made or earthly natrual.

Personal Background
i'm a disabeld vetran i used be a welder and worked constuction, but my current dissability has me unemploed. i do amature radio broadcast as a d.j. at alocal college. and i am a former u.s. marine.

Views on UFOs, before and after sighting
i used ta live in honduras c.a. and had two sightings there at the ages of 14 and 16 years old. also had another one here in orlando in 1999. i listen to coast to coast since 1994. i have several books, and since my sightings as teenager i have always made a point to observe the skies. i do believe they are here, what for? i dont known, but sure as hell want to know.

Other Comments
i am a pretty good artist i'll send you several sketches of what i saw.

Reported Sighting? No
Reported To: just told friends.
Name: hugo alexander pina
Location: oviedo, florida.
Age: 40