NUFORC UFO Sighting 176915
Occurred: 2023-07-23 20:58 Local
Reported: 2023-07-23 19:52 Pacific
Duration: 1-3 minutes
No of observers: 5

Location: , , Turks And Caicos Islands
Location details: Off north coast traveling SE

Shape: Cone
Explanation: Rocket - Probable
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Thought to be aircraft pushing through fog but emerged and did not have flashing lights associated with airplane.

Seemed to travel too slowly to be shooting star or meteor. Was silent and without flashing lights

NUFORC Note:

SpaceX launch from Florida





Posted 2023-07-29

NUFORC UFO Sighting 45733
Occurred: 2005-07-06 20:00 Local
Reported: 2005-08-22 08:02 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Providenciales Island (Turks & Caicos Islands), , Turks and Caicos Islands

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object

Long fireball over South Atlantic ocean

My wife and I were on vacation and as we sat on our balcony watching the sun set, a "fireball" looking object started to go up from the horizon and against the clouds, stars, etc. It started off as one small dot, then it grew into a cigar shape and kept traveling up away from the horizon. I caught a few pictures of it, but then it disapeared in the blink of an eye. The pictures I took clearly show it rising in the sky and elongating like someone was stretching it. Then it simply shrank and disappeared. We thought it may be a vapor trail behind a plane and the sun set reflecting off of it, but it moved too quickly over a large area and there were no lights on it. It was like 1 big light.




NUFORC Note:

We wonder whether the witnesses might have been observing a contrail passing overhead. Just a guess. PD


Posted 2005-09-02

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26299
Occurred: 2002-11-27 16:00 Local
Reported: 2002-11-28 18:33 Pacific
Duration:


Location: Turks (and Caicos), , Turks and Caicos Islands

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Left a trail

This is a link to a cnn.com report on a mysterious contrail.

I saw this report on cnn.com and thought I would pass it along:

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Central/11/28/contrail.scramble/index.html

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NORAD investigates vapor trail reports
Thursday, November 28, 2002 Posted: 5:52 PM EST (2252 GMT)

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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) -- Fighter jets scrambled in an unsuccessful attempt to investigate a contrail of unknown origin first seen over the Caribbean and later reported over the midwestern United States, the Department of Defense said Thursday.

The North American Aerospace Defense Command scrambled the jets soon after unverified reports were received around 4 p.m. Wednesday that the contrail, seen near the Turks and Caicos Islands, was headed northwest toward the United States, said Lt. Cmdr. Curtis Jenkins, a spokesman for the Colorado Springs-based group.

A contrail is a white trail of condensed water vapor that sometimes forms in the wake of an aircraft.

The jets were scrambled from more than one base and more than one location, he said, though he did not know how many jets or from how many locations.

Commercial airline pilots later reported the contrail over Florida and then over Indiana, after which no more sightings were reported, he said.

The jets attempted to intercept and identify the source of the contrail, but no visual or confirmed radar contact was made, he added.

"I don't know that anybody was predisposed to think it might be some thing or the other," he said. "We don't even know that it was a thing. It was just simply reports of contrails. We don't even know that it was the same one. We had reports from different places and NORAD did its job and tried to find out."

NORAD is coordinating with the Federal Aviation Administration and is continuing to investigate the reports, he added.

((END CNN STORY))

Posted 2002-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26602
Occurred: 1999-03-22 22:15 Local
Reported: 2002-12-13 19:28 Pacific
Duration: 20 seconds
No of observers: 1

Location: Turks/Caicos, , Turks and Caicos Islands

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail

A formation of 2 groups of steady white lights moving fast and silently from W to E across the night sky 40 m SSW of Turks

A formation of 2 groups of steady white lights moved fast and silently from west to east across the night sky. Viewed from a sailboat on transit from Puerto Rico to the Turks and Caicos islands, heading 315 magnetic, date 03/22/99, time 22:15 island time, position 20 44 26/71 26 00, about 40 NM SSW of the Turks islands. The left group of lights consisted of 5 steady white lights in close position, the right group consisted of 2 simular lights. The two groups traveled close together, keeping the same position to each other. The steady white lights were round, maybe the size of a baseball, with short tails trailing. There was absolutely no noise. The lights travelled across the sky at an elevation of about 40 degrees, from west or northwest to east or southeast, at a steady speed, taking about 20 seconds. The sky was clear, with a few tropical clouds.

I was off watch and resting, when my mate called me up on deck, and we watched this phenomina together, looking over the right side of the boat. I wrote down the information about this observation right after, but did not report it earlier, due to not knowing this web site.

I am an optical engineer, but have no explanation how lights like this can travel at this high speed, without any noise. These were not meteors, which I observed many times before.

Posted 2002-12-23