pitchpine:

A UFO over/west of Lake Okeechobee.

The top picture is a “timestack” of 5 photos, hence the star trails. You can also see an (albeit admittedly closer) airplane trail across the middle of that stack.

The second photo is a zoom crop of the object and incident in question, from the top photo stack. It was only visible for four 30-second exposures before completely disappearing.

The arch of light occurred during the first of the four ‘visible’ photos, shown in the third (bottom) picture. So, it did not occur during the direction change.

17 October 2018

Canal Point, Florida