Lighted Windows

Intelligence-dossier evidence board for the January 1949 Cortez-Bradenton, Florida UFO sighting, showing a clear night sky over the Cortez fishing village and Bradenton shoreline with palms in silhouette and starlit water as an elongated luminous cigar-shaped object about the length of two railroad cars, bearing a single row of seven glowing square windows and trailing sparks, rides a bouncing descend-then-climb arc, watched by two distant unidentifiable figures on the ground; rendered in cold grainy low-saturation 1949 silver-gelatin night film character, with a clipped inset line-diagram of the seven-window cigar and its undulating flight path and a note marking Project Blue Book Unknown #284, and restrained warm-amber tactical HUD overlays marking the case as Classification NL nocturnal lights, two witnesses being a USAF aircraft-branch chief and his wife, sourced to Berliner, FUFOR, and Blue Book, status Unexplained.

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Florida Sightings

1949: Cortez-Bradenton, Florida Sighting

Published: September 21, 2013 | Updated: June 6, 2026

THINK ABOUTIT UFO | UAP SIGHTING REPORT 1949: The Cortez-Bradenton Sighting — Florida Late on the night of January 27, 1949, an Air Force...