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"It just hovered, but it didn't move," Hall said. "We just wondered what it was."
Then, she saw it again, on March 28. And again, on March 29.
Then, Isles of Capri Fire Rescue District Chief Emilio Rodriguez spotted something similar on the district's weather camera.
Then, an unidentified flying object investigator with a national organization got involved and interviewed the owner of the Capri Fish House, Mike Castellano, near Hall's home. Castellano said he, his friends and his staff had seen similar strange lights, including one about a year ago.
Reported sightings of strange lights on Isles of Capri or off its coast now number at least 10. Hall has seen a light seven times. Castellano saw a light three times. Hall said a friend at church told her she saw three lights on one occasion.
Hall, 70, wrote about the sighting in her weekly column in the Naples Sun-Times.
"It was a stormy night," Hall said of the first sighting. "The sky was black and there were no constellations."
After she wrote the column, she got a call from Morgan Beall, an investigator with Mutual Unidentified Flying Object Network, a group that has investigators across the country. The group's website, mufon.com, maintains a database of reports.
Beall said his investigation is not done, but he is already raising questions about the sightings.
"This is me really digging hard," Beall said. "I try to be really, really sure."
Beall said he believes the light caught by the camera, which was facing west, could be the moon setting. Hall insists the photo was taken at 10:22 p.m. Rodriguez could not be reached for comment late Monday, but Hall said she and Rodriguez both saw the camera's animation showing the object drop into the water on the evening of March 29.
"There's no way the moon was going down on the water at 10:22 p.m.," Hall said.
Hall describes the light as not being a perfect ball, but being a bit "squished" on the top and the bottom. On one of the first three sightings, she saw it drop instantly into the water. The other times she went to bed and missed whatever happened. Hall said she didn't take photos, because she didn't think it was a big deal and doesn't have the necessary equipment, anyway.
On April 20, she saw it again, but this time it wasn't white, as she said it had been before. It was more red and farther away, about a mile. Beall's got a theory on that, too.
"It actually was Venus that sets at a pretty early hour," Hall said. "In March, it was a later hour and this month it's a bit earlier."
Hall insists it wasn't Venus or the moon.
"I know what Venus looks like," Hall said.
Castellano said he and friends saw a light off the coast and what appeared to be jets flying toward it and then all disappearing. He isn't jumping to conclusions.
"As far as being a spaceship, I mean come on," Castellano said. "It was a light in the sky."
Beall watched planes coming into Naples airport from the restaurant and believes, at this point, they may have been what Castellano and others saw.
Either way, Beall has no explanation for the closer encounters Hall and her husband witnessed.
Castellano doesn't much mind the visitor. He said it's OK if it sticks around.
"I have no problems with the light," Castellano said. "For all we know it's a reflection off a cloud."
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