Time: early May of 2011, approximately 2pm for the first sighting, around midnight for the 2nd. Location: Cocoa Beach, Florida So, I wanna say this was in 2011, early May. My family and I were on vacation in Florida for a week, and my (then girlfriend, now wife) wanted to get out of the hotel vicinity for awhile and just have some fun. She loves manatees, so I looked at a map and saw a Manatee Sanctuary Park on the Banana River just north of where we were staying in Cocoa Beach and said "let's go." We parked and walked around, looking for manatees just beneath the surface. We were a few miles southwest of Cape Canaveral. I've been going to the Space Coast since I was 7, at the time of this sighting I think I would've been about 32 or 33, and I've seen numerous shuttle and rocket launches at all times of day, including "secret" launches that I heard about from hotel maids. Anyway, we're scanning the coast of the Banana River, and I hear a loud, screaming thrust of a launch to the northeast. Directly from Canaveral. I turned to look, and my eye caught a small, white, triangular object screaming across the sky from the proximity of the launch pad. By "screaming" I mean it was moving very fast, but not making a noise after the initial thrust of what I assume was a launch. This thing came to a DEAD STOP a few thousand feet over our heads. My wife had heard the launch and was like "what the f**k was that?" and I pointed at it. At which point we watched this thing pivot on an axis so that the tip of the triangle was pointing straight up towards space, and then it accelerated out of the atmosphere in about 2-3 seconds. Maybe less. The reason I say it's hard to describe exactly what it was is because of my proximity to Kennedy Space Center and the Air Force base just south in Broward County. And it made a sound leaving what I assume was the launch pad at Canaveral. I have every reason to think it's man-made, "one of ours", etc. But this is not anything I've ever heard of or seen being disclosed as possible with human tech. And I've seen at least 4 other launches live in my lifetime, not that that makes me an expert. This same trip, I remember it because it was the weekend bin Laden was killed, I saw a "triangle UFO" at night over the ocean. No lights. No sounds. it took me a second to even really notice what I was seeing. I was sitting on the balcony of our hotel room looking out at the ocean at night. My wife was asleep on the couch. and as I was looking at the ocean and night sky, I realized there was a patch of sky where I couldn't see any stars. as I watched longer, I made out the distinct triangle shape. it was more like I could see what it was by what I *couldn't* see, if that makes sense? like there was a hole in the sky. it might have been about the length of a football field, maybe a few hundred feet off the ocean's surface, just gliding silently down the coast toward the Air Force base until it turned out over the ocean and was lost to sight. I've never posted to Reddit before, and never posted this story anywhere else on the internet. I was the sole witness to the triangle UFO at night, but my wife saw the one in broad daylight with me. I've told both stories to friends and family and have been mostly dismissed. My dad is always a skeptic, but my mom believed me. unfortunately she has terrible Alzheimer's now, so that doesn't help. but my big takeaway from these 2 back-to-back experiences was that humans definitely have craft capable of flight maneuvers similar to what people have described with UFO/UAP encounters. I'm off the opinion that they are probably reverse engineered, but I bristle when I hear individuals say that humans don't have the capability of these craft yet when I've seen one take off from Cape Canaveral. I just wanted to get this out there. I've lurked on this sub for a long time, and I've finally had the time to really formulate my thoughts around what I saw and write it down. happy to be heard and keep reading. Cheers, all. submitted by /u/Ok-Contribution-411 [link] [comments]