TAMPA, FLORIDA

October 15, 1999

1:00 -- 1:02  P.M.

The witness was in his car having lunch, he just came from 7-11 and was sitting behind the building that he was working in.  The building was near waters St. on Country Way, the north side. going west on Hillsborough St.  It was one to one and a half miles short of Racetrack Road facing north when it came into view and passed overhead.  He was listening to the radio relaxing and watching the buzzards and an osprey flying in the sky.  There were some cumulus clouds and low wisps of stratus clouds with the clear blue sky behind them.  There, in the north, appeared a dark cylindrical object, 70 degrees above the horizon, approximately one mile away.  The object crossed over his car and he was able to see it again in the southwest.  He got out of the car and walked 40 to 50 ft. out to a clearing where he was better able to view it.  It was dark in color and the bottom looked black with a rim around it.  He looked back to the north and saw another object, farther away, 50 degrees above the horizon traveling in the same path.  It was disk like in shape and was also dark gray in color.  The object finally disappeared and the cloud below it, a stratus cloud appeared to have been sucked up from below to the level of this object.  The first object was the size of a pea at arm's length and it traveled approximately three inches at arm's length.  The second object was smaller, half that size and moved in an irregular pattern.  It even disappeared for a second.  The entire sighting took approximately four minutes.  He yelled for someone to come and look at it.  There was a painter on a latter, but he did not seem to understand what was said to him.  Then two other painters came by to paint a line on the parking lot and told the witness to move his car.  He asked them if they saw anything just then and they said that they did not.

[From MUFON'S Baywatch Newsletter December, 1999, editor Fred Miller.]