NAPLES, Fl. (WBBH) – We see all kinds of things in the sky, but one Naples man is perplexed by what he saw on Wednesday.
“They were kind of glowing and flickering a little bit,” said Matt Krauss.
It was Wednesday evening when he and his wife looked up. They didn’t see the moon, but instead a single bright light.
“New lights appeared near it and they got very, very bright at that point,” he said. “There were four of them and they kind of moved in different directions.”
According to Krauss, the lights didn’t make any sound and seemed to be hovering in place.
“What I can’t explain is why they were so bright, why they were stationary for, one of them was stationary for 15 minutes,” he said.
Southwest Florida International Airport shared if anything abnormal was going on. They deferred us to the FAA. The FAA says we’d have to ask the military.
However, the Naples Airport Authority says there wasn’t anything out of the ordinary on the radar that night, but noted it could be Chinese lanterns. Those are illegal within City of Naples limits.
Krauss doesn’t think so.
“The random movement is kind of what convinced me they weren’t something like Chinese lanterns that were being blown by the wind.”
Back on Naples beach, suspicion was in the air.
“I feel there’s something out there,” said Fran Williams.
“Looks a little suspicious,” added Bryce Renkiewicz.
But not everyone believes E.T. is taking a trip to Naples.
“People sighting UFOs, it’s usually some sort of military aircraft or something like that,” said Peter Agri. “I’d have to see it to believe it. Physically be there to see it.”
Could it really be something from outer space? One aviation expert says only 1% of sightings go unexplained, but he couldn’t rule out the fact that what Krauss saw could be from out of this world.
“It could be a number of different things, but I’m not ruling out that UFOs don’t exist,” said Pete Trabucco, a veteran pilot. “How arrogant do we think we are that we’re all by ourselves in this entire universe.”
Atmospheric anomalies, drones, or covert military ops are other possibilities.
“They probably are from outer space or from another location or from a place we are not aware of,” said Trabucco.
What we do know is that these lights are still unidentified flying objects.
And we’re back to asking the same question: what actually flew above Naples that night?