UFO Sighting in Coconut Creek, Florida-February 12th, 2005-UFO Casebook Files

I had the opportunity to get my hands on some UFO video footage that a friend of mine (Paul Cohen) got out in Coconut Creek, Florida on February 12th of 2005. The object was apparently hovering over his back yard for about 20 minutes or so that morning at around 11:35 a.m., and he captured about 5 minutes of it with his MiniDV camera, a consumer-brand Sony camcorder. There are 3 other people known to have witnessed the event, including Paul's Girlfriend, Gina, who was with him at the time.

After having seen the video playing on Paul's laptop, I insisted on getting a copy of the original DV footage from him so I could do some more comprehensive analysis. What I encountered during that process was, to say the least, entirely unexpected.

I should note that I've never done any kind of UFO image analysis before, or any kind of image analysis, for that matter. I've never been all that interested in, nor am I any kind of authority on the subject. I am, however, experienced with using image manipulation software (ie: Photoshop) and consider myself to be somewhat of an expert on the subject of videography and video compression, having been an enthusiast, student, and teacher of this subject for the last dozen or so years of my life.

I obtained the video footage via a firewire transfer from Paul's MiniDV camera to his PC. The resulting DV format AVI file was copied to an external USB hardrive, and then transferred to my home PC, where all the image and video analysis was done.

I used a program called VirtualDub to do the video editing and analysis. This analysis involved primarily the locating of and slowing down of some of the more interesting video sequences, where a distinct disc-shaped object is plainly visible.