Mysterious 'Ball Of Fire' Seen In Fla. Skies
From Fort Pierce to about five miles south of Jacksonville, reports came in to Coast Guard offices starting about 7:30 p.m., said Dan Yates, a Coast Guard petty officer in Port Canaveral.Yates said one caller who was walking his dog near the Sebastian Inlet described the object as "huge, like a giant fireball."Yates said callers to the Coast Guard station thought a boater might have been in trouble. "A lot of people thought it might have been a flare that might have gone up," Yates said of other callers."One person thought this fire ball went into the ocean," Larimer said. "The Coast Guard said it probably didn't and it was just his perspective. We know it was not a rocket launch and we know the Air Force was not doing anything."Experts said it could be a piece of space junk or a large meteor burning up in the atmosphere.The Coast Guard base near Jacksonville also received calls.Babs Angel, a public affairs spokeswoman for Patrick Air Force Base, said no local military activity was taking place Tuesday night.Watch Local 6 News for more on this story.






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