From: UFO UpDates - Toronto <post.nul>
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:50:35 -0500
Archived: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:50:35 -0500
Subject: Cox - What's Up Off Siesta Key?




Source: The Sarasota Herald Tribune - Florida, USA

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=3DBLOG32

Friday, February 27, 2009


What's Up Off Siesta Key?
by Billy Cox

A recent sighting bearing a Sarasota tagline logged into the
National UFO Reporting Center database was so compelling that
even Webmaster Peter Davenport made note at:

http://www.nuforc.org/webreports/067/S67669.html

"We spoke with this witness via telephone," he wrote, "and we
suspect that the person is a superlative witness. We would
welcome reports from the other witnesses present, or from anyone
else in... Sarasota, who may have been witness to the same
event."

No wonder Davenport was impressed. The guy had a keen eye for
detail, filing GPS location coordinates, weather conditions, and
even the estimated altitude and speed of the UFO, which put on a
show over the Gulf of Mexico off Siesta Key on Christmas night
before it accelerated out of sight.

Actually, there were two UFOs that evening, the second one
appearing immediately after the first disappeared. "I was able
to train a high power telescope on the second object," he wrote,
"and saw nothing but a pulsating light that I would have
reported as a flare if the trajectory had not been what it was."

"I have seen flares, fighter jets afterburners at night, oil rig
burn offs, boat fires, large shooting stars breaking apart,
plane crashes and countless other night time lights and
phenomena," he added. "I am convinced that was none of these."

He queried regional military and FAA facilities about any 8
p.m.-ish aerial activity on 12/25/08 and got goose eggs. He
phoned a local Coast Guard station, where a petty officer
informed him they=92d had another UFO call =97 same place, same
time. But that was it. The post was anonymous. End of story.
Until Feb. 16.

That=92s when the Herald-Tribune was approached by a Sarasota
entrepreneur and former politician with additional details of
the Christmas night event. Among the witnesses were a Navy C-130
pilot, a schoolteacher, a Presbyterian minister, and the
caller=92s son =97 who filed the report with NUFORC.

The reason he contacted the paper nearly two months later was
because the UFOs had reappeared the night before, Sunday Feb.
15. Same time, same place, same sequence. But this time, his son
managed to catch the second UFO on his digital camera. Problem:
No names could be associated with the story because his son was
a Coast Guard pilot who feared the disclosure could jeopardize
his career.

So the son forwarded the video to De Void in hopes that more
eyes on this thing might shed some light on the mystery.
Unfortunately, as he admits, the sequence isn=92t that good.
There=92s no perspective, no framing, just an orange dot dancing
around in the dark. Still, the experience was enough to expand
his notions on reality.

"I=92m reaching out because I want to know what I saw," says the
former law enforcement officer who, once again, contacted the
same government outlets he did in December without getting any
explanations. "It was purposeful, it was almost as if it were
choreographed. I=92m a skeptic at heart, but I=92m also a trained
observer, which means I have to keep an open mind."

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