Odd light " sphere" hovering and changing color video.

[Abbott287]

I saw this at the end of my street on 11/29 at 9:56 PM. It looks very similar to other orbs I have seen posted. It caught my eye because of the apparent blinking and color change.
Im in Palm Bay Florida and can provide the exact intersection of streets where I saw it. Im aprox 30 minutes from Cape Canaveral. Would love to figure out what this is. Thanks in advance for any help.


Source: https://youtu.be/23Km-_owAqE?si=vpx6PhVfEuuNqGT2

 

[Ann K]

I saw this at the end of my street on 11/29 at 9:56 PM. It looks very similar to other orbs I have seen posted. It caught my eye because of the apparent blinking and color change.

First impression? It's called an "orb" because it's round, and for no other reason. It's only seen as round because it is way out of focus. It's near the horizon, therefore it is seen through quite a bit of atmosphere of different temperatures/densities, which cause the "blinking and color change".

Is there an airport in that direction?

 

[Mick West]

It appears to be the star Sirius, and you can make out Mirzam above it.
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Abbott287 Palm Bay Sphere _Sirius_/20251222_191635.js

 

[JMartJr]

I was excited for a minute, I thought I detected a repeating pattern in the flashes and thought it might be an LED night-flying kite. Sadly, no. I believe Mick is correct.

 

[Mick West]

I was excited for a minute, I thought I detected a repeating pattern in the flashes and thought it might be an LED night-flying kite. Sadly, no. I believe Mick is correct.

Hey, I once thought Sirius was a police helicopter

 

[GM4AJK]

On a dog walk once I was returning home by a different route, and as I emerged from woodland, I saw what looked like a police helicopter over Glenrothes. I stopped and watched for a couple of minutes, and when it didn't move, I thought, hang on... so I moved, and yeah, it was a lamppost on the road I live on. Illusions can be bangers sometimes

 

[JMartJr]

Somewhere else on here I mentioned witnessing a Volkswagon-sized object gliding silently across the sky at a pretty good clip, that then passed between me and some low tree branches and became recognizably an owl-sized object gliding along silently (as owls are wont to do) at owl-like speed.

The statement "I know what I saw," needs to be retired...

 

[Abbott287]

It appears to be the star Sirius, and you can make out Mirzam above it.
https://www.metabunk.org/sitrec/?custom=https://sitrec.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/1/Abbott287 Palm Bay Sphere _Sirius_/20251222_191635.js

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Thanks Mick and to all who responded!
Question. I just moved to Florida, (lived in NJ previously) and have been looking at the sky since I was a little kid. My Dad was an amateur astronomer and was in several clubs. In NJ, I never saw a single thing that was odd (except for 1 time which is a funny story I will share later) but since moving to Fla, am seeing several strange lights such as what I have posted.
Is the atmosphere different here that would cause a star like that to change colors and appear to be rotating or flickering? In NJ, I had never seen anything like it thus my post.
Again, appreciate all the help and the positive identification! The world needs more places like this.

 

[Mick West]

Is the atmosphere different here that would cause a star like that to change colors and appear to be rotating or flickering? In NJ, I had never seen anything like it thus my post.

No, Sirius is just the brightest star in the sky. The color changing and flickering is just from the atmosphere. There is some variation due to weather and latitude, but it's probably just something you happened to notice. You will see it more now that you are paying more attention. There's a first time for everything.

As someone said in 1910:
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/68391/68391-h/68391-h.htm#:~:text=Sirius is an intensely white star,

Sirius is an intensely white star, but its whiteness is shot with a tint of blue or green. It has not the purity of light of Spica. Owing also to its great brilliance, it twinkles incessantly, darting, in an unsteady atmosphere, rays of all the colors of the rainbow.

Or:
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1901JBAA...11..281./0000285.000.html