Texas man reports UFO sighting near Okeechobee

By Katrina Elsken
Lake Okeechobee News

OKEECHOBEE – A Texas man is wondering if anyone else saw something in the sky over Okeechobee on Friday, May 2.

Thomas Coredell, 49, had been visiting Miami with his wife last week when they decided to drive up to Okeechobee to see the big lake.

He said around 9:15 p.m., as they near Pratt Whitney, he saw a line of lights in the sky.

Later, as they continued to travel towards Okeechobee, “I saw something I had never seen before in the sky.” He said they were on SR 710 a few miles south of SR 70 at the time.

Cordell said the reddish-orange object appeared to be an oblong “leaf shape” with one pointed end, suspended about 1,000 feet in the air.

The object appeared to be outlined by dots of light, he explained. As he watched, the object rotated and then disappeared, he said.

“Right after it twisted, it just evaporated,” said Cordell. “It was just gone. I have never seen anything like that in my life.”

He said the object never went up or down. The lights did not flicker.

The Texan said he considered the possibility it could have been a group of well-coordinated drones, but it would have taken some very skills drone piloting, “say 50 drones at one time, completely controlled by a computer.”

He said the object could have been a danger to airplanes. “The part where it disappeared was more dangerous than when it was illuminated,” he continued.

Cordell said his wife also saw the object but it all happened too fast for her to get a photo with her phone. The couple stopped at a gas station in Okeechobee to ask if anyone else had seen it, but found no other witnesses.

He said he called the FAA, and an official suggested the first lights he saw could have been a satellite or satellites. The FFA official suggested he contact the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC.org) about the second sighting.  The UFO center took the report and also suggested he tell the story to the local media to ask if anyone else had seen the UFO, or knew what it might have been