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UFO sighting? VI residents baffled by 'mysterious light' in sky

Several residents of the Virgin Islands were today, December 18, 2019, left astonished and spooked by a mysterious light moving across the night sky in the early hours of the morning. Photo: Facebook
In the almost two minute video, a white light can be seen orbiting the sky some distance away before finally vanishing as it dissipated into darkness. Similar sightings were spotted in the USVI, Trinidad & Tobago and as far a Guyana, however, the object remains unidentified. Photo: Facebook
In the almost two minute video, a white light can be seen orbiting the sky some distance away before finally vanishing as it dissipated into darkness. Similar sightings were spotted in the USVI, Trinidad & Tobago and as far a Guyana, however, the object remains unidentified. Photo: Facebook
ROAD TOWN, Tortola, VI - Several residents of the Virgin Islands were today, December 18, 2019, left astonished and spooked by a mysterious light moving across the night sky in the early hours of the morning.

"This morning Wednesday, December 18th 2019, we saw this and it wasn’t fireworks, it wasn’t a plane, it wasn’t a meteor, it wasn’t a drone, it wasn’t a rocket, but it appeared an object with a bright shining light moving it travelling in one direction and then 2 minutes later then disappeared....we were all just as astonished," Facebook user Phil Hast said with an accompanying video via a post in the BVI Community Board.

According to the publisher of the video, it was taken facing east, towards the Multi-Purpose Sports Complex in Road Town, Tortola in the wee hours of the morning. 

Similar sightings in USVI & T&T 

In the almost two minute video, a white light can be seen moving in the sky some distance away before finally vanishing as it dissipated into darkness. Similar sightings were spotted in the US Virgin Islands (USVI), Trinidad and Tobago and as far a Guyana; however, the object remains unidentified.

Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) reached out to the British Virgin Islands Airport Authority (BVIAA) to find out if the authority received any reports of the sighting and whether the lighted object can be identified; however, no response was received up to publication time. 

Many in the VI Community are speculating that the object might have been an Alien UFO; however, some are indicating that the lights could have originated from the space rocket, Soyuz Flight VS23 launched into orbit this morning from Spaceport, French Guiana (Guiana Space Center) at 05:54:20 A.M.

Virgin Islands News Online (VINO) will bring more information as they become available.

23 Responses to “UFO sighting? VI residents baffled by 'mysterious light' in sky ”

  • lmao (18/12/2019, 12:45) Like (7) Dislike (0) Reply
    It was a SpaceEx rocket......just google it.
    • Steve from VG (19/12/2019, 07:08) Like (3) Dislike (6) Reply
      That was not true . We was less than 200 feet from it .
      We got pictures and a video close up .
      It was 5:07 and it lasted about 7 minutes
  • Igwe (18/12/2019, 12:45) Like (14) Dislike (24) Reply
    I didn't hear anything about this, wonder what it could be. Hope you all repent from your sins and wicked ways... we are in the end times.
  • Ndp sins (18/12/2019, 12:55) Like (32) Dislike (9) Reply
    It was the missing 7.2m plane
  • No such thing as a UFO (18/12/2019, 13:00) Like (31) Dislike (3) Reply
    All these so call UFO are own by the big government’s of the world (USA,Russian,Chinese etc) pushing their agenda of an alien invasion don’t be deceived, stay woke
    • Correct^ (18/12/2019, 13:13) Like (10) Dislike (8) Reply
      The lord said there’s a firmament around his earth that separates the waters above and below, there’s no leaving this earth like NASA tells you by the way in Hebrew NASA means to deceive, but yea there’s no way other so call aliens can just fly in there’s no leaving this plane-et #StayWoke
    • ha (18/12/2019, 13:39) Like (12) Dislike (3) Reply
      You sound a bit odd considering that UFO stands for unidentified flying object meaning, they dont know what it is yet so it is a ufo. Sound like you so "Woke" that your lack of sleep might be taking an identified bad effect on your IQ...:) ;)
    • willie (18/12/2019, 19:14) Like (2) Dislike (4) Reply
      @ no such thing AS a UFO, Why not ? If we’re here why can’t someone else
    • tretretrete (18/12/2019, 20:25) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
      Somebody very woke
  • hmm (18/12/2019, 13:28) Like (12) Dislike (29) Reply
    That was a jumbie from those island people who had gotten belongers
  • Komodo Dragon (18/12/2019, 15:13) Like (5) Dislike (5) Reply
    Das Andrew telling ayo don't mess wid de VIP projects
  • one eye (18/12/2019, 16:55) Like (1) Dislike (3) Reply
    Just a drone gone bad
  • @LOL (18/12/2019, 16:56) Like (0) Dislike (2) Reply
    Me just luv how dem ah gwaan, like seh dem Kant lose..lol
  • Hmm (18/12/2019, 17:52) Like (1) Dislike (14) Reply
    Its gotta be one out of the "1,500" expats we naturalized dummy's. Shhhhh
  • simple (19/12/2019, 08:52) Like (1) Dislike (1) Reply
    This was the SpaceX launch.
    • how? (19/12/2019, 14:09) Like (1) Dislike (0) Reply
      The spacex launch was Dec 16th? Falcon lands in the Atlantic there doesn't seem to be any evidence that we would see it south of BVI>
  • Okiwanka (22/12/2019, 23:55) Like (0) Dislike (1) Reply
    What a good hoax dem edit da video so good i wish i was like yall


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