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I made two mistakes that i want to clarify:
It was not being picked up on "Sonar not radar"
USO stand for Unidentified submerged object
The witness stated the following "I work on a research vessel. Recently we had a trip, studying bioluminescence in the Gulf of Mexico. Around 2345, we were conducting research as normal, when a science party member saw a strange light about a quarter mile off our stern.
We immediately started to make way towards the light. The intensity of the light was quite astonishing, nobody in the crew or the science party knew what to make of it. At first, we thought it could have been a sunken vessel, or a navigation buoy of some kind that sunk.
We proceeded to get as close as possible to the light, and eventually we hovered directly on top of it. Our vessel has a moonpool in the center, which the crew and science party were able to carefully observe the light from directly on top.
We used a sub-surface camera to attempt and capture what the object may have been. The science party onboard automatically ruled out the light being produced by bioluminescent phytoplankton.
This light source was 100% on the bottom of the ocean, and not something that was floating through the water column. It did not move in the current. The water depth at this specific location was 60’ deep. As we hovered on top of the light, we used an EK-80 ( sonar ) to provide us with imagining of the ocean floor at this location.
To our surprise, this object producing the light did not have a physical shape that we could detect. It was invisible to our sonar. The sonar is also capable of imaging objects that are below the sea floor ( objects that could be partially submerged in the mud ), and objects that could be as small as 3’ in length/ width.
TLDR: Saw a very bright light source shining from the ocean floor, was invisible on our sonar. Object had no physical shape but produced a strong light."
He also added:
When the boat gets chartered out by scientists, they provide all the gear. The mission of this trip was to study bioluminescence. So naturally, they bring cameras and equipment to photograph bioluminescence at the surface. The vessel is not equipped with anything more than whatever the scientists decide to bring. Dropping a traditional camera in the water, without the correct protective housing, would cause the camera to break. ( we did not have any gear to send down a camera 60’)
The most logical explanation at first, would be bioluminescence. According to the PhD chief scientist, he immediately declared it was not bioluminescence after viewing the object using the camera equipment that was attached to the ship.
Let me throw in a personal opinion, that is not based off of fact. Ok, let’s say it was bioluminescence for sake of argument. I want to know, how was the luminosity of it so bright that we saw it from over 1000 feet away, + 60 feet down. Especially after making the deduction that the object was more than likely sitting on the ocean floor, and why wasn’t it moving with the ocean currents? It appeared as it was anchored, or stationary in one position.
Location coordinates: 28°1.913'N • 83°4.032'W ( 10 miles west of caladesi island, Clearwater beach Florida)
Exact time and date of sighting: 2348 EST , February 27 2024
Charted water depth according to Fathometer : 60’
Time spent observing object: 2348-0400 ( we started steaming away from the location to move to our next site early in the morning, the object was visible all through the night and morning until we left it)
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Thanks to Zj223 for your amazing sighting, images & footage: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1c4al9e/strange_lights_seen_at_sea/#lightbox
Thanks to Gregnog1 for the satellite imagery: https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1c5u1ld/satellite_verification_of_strange_lights_seen_at/

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