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A luminous portent in the southern portion of the Florida sky caused many local residents to think an alien invasion had begun. Witnesses recorded an unusual, comet-like, bright light in the early evening hours of February 9th and immediately flooded social media platforms with footage of what appeared to be a UFO. The strange event, however, was later confirmed by news outlets to be a U.S. Navy Trident-II SLBM test launch scheduled for that day. Although the sighting turned out to have a rather prosaic origin, many UFO enthusiasts are not convinced it was a missile test and are beginning to speculate that a cover-up is already in progress to dismiss an extraordinary alien visitation.