This case was listed as unidentified...
Pilots in an aircraft observed a light - pale, green flashing light - doing acrobatics for about 15 minutes. Observed "covered the sky" making fast moves, very sharp abrupt terms, hovered, went straight up, passed over the top of the aircraft and even dropped straight down - all in totally controlled maneuvers.
It even headed straight toward the aircraft - a clear near Collison course - before it made a n abrupt turn. Palm Beech had it on radar - briefly. The aircraft was ordered to make a 360 degree turn to see if it was a reflection or similar situation.
Pilots were "questioned" in depth (many pages of the transcript are part of the Project Blue Book files) and there were troubling aspects. There was an inference that the hot-rodding object or light might have "landed" or "lowered" enough to be confused with a landing.
The date for this was 15 September 1968. A day before the Poseidon Launch and five days after the odd photos taken in Miami by a newspaper photographer.
Oddly, there is a case of an incident with an airliner in February of that year as well. At 7:45 p.m., February 28, a three-man crew of an Eastern Air Lines ferry flight traveling from St. Louis to Miami observed what was described as a string of unknown lights. These lights caused the pilot "to take evasive action." The crew, flying at 18,000 feet, reported seeing "a red flashing light."
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