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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 8,113 UFO sighting reports in Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (1,514 reports, 18.66% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (783 reports, 9.65% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1,428 reports, 17.60% of total).
- 04/30/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (29 reports, 0.36% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (645 reports, 7.95% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3,820 reports, 47.08% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Florida
These Florida UFO reports are presented as they were submitted other than paragraph breaks added for easier readability where necessary. You can click the 'Report' link to view the original report along with any photos that may have been submitted to the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC).
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Video on my security camera An object travels in a straight line at a very high speed, not like an animal flying. I can only relate my impression to a bullet but I didn’t hear anyone shooting. The object came out of the woods of my backyard and traveled straight towards the front yard passing between the house and the shed at a height of 6-8 ft.
I took the image on my iPhone from my tv screen and recorded it in real time and slow play. The object appears to be opaque and leaves a trace image of its trail. I’m guessing it traveled 50 feet in one second? I don’t know why the camera triggered and then happened to catch the image.
The next camera in the direction it headed was not triggered to record but did capture the image of that area about 10 seconds before the moment that was recorded. The night before there was a light in the area that the object came from.
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Light streak in photo Took a picture of approaching storm to send to my wife at work. When I looked at the photo (taken on my iPhone) the light anomaly appeared over the roof of the house next door. I had live photo turned on which produces a short video.
I am including both the JPG and MOV files.
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4 very bright orange circle lights Flying through the sky at very high speeds and then disappearing in seconds.
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Look like to me ufo with circle lights When I drove on N Ponce de Leon Blvd and my eyes sharped spot pretty close to me then I grabbed iphone video with my hand and camera on ufo with led circle then quick fly away.
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Starlink-103 (6-12) Falcon 9 SpaceX LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center.
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Starlink-103 (6-12) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center.
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Saw a large red object in the sky, it turned and looked like fire was coming out the back the it started moving then disappeared Husband was driving down 275 and I was looking at the moon and noticed a very large red orb in the sky. At first thought it was a planet or star but it was too large. Then i thought it could be a plane but there were no blinking lights and it was completely still at first.
I kept watching and it turned and was it then looked almost like an L shape. I saw what I believe were bright red lights and it looked like there was fire coming out of it. It started moving across the sky trying light behind it and then suddenly completely disappeared.
Don't know if this matters but I was feeling symptoms of anxiety a few minutes prior to seeing the object.
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Starlink-103 (6-12) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center.
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Starlink-103 (6-12) LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center.
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Starlink-103 (6-12) Falcon 9 SpaceX LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center.
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Large Triangle Craft Plus 2 smaller fast crafts or orbs Taking my dog out I saw a triangle of 3 lights. There was another 2 lights/orbs/craft that was zipping around sometimes near the triangle, sometimes directly in the middle of the triangle craft, then nowhere, then near the ground. I thought at one point there were 3 zipping around but I'm not sure if the 3rd craft was a plane, a star, or part of these 2 craft.
Sometimes that light (zippy craft) would blink out and reappear in a different location but always around the area of the triangle. At one point the other light passed between my line of sight and the triangle's bottom light and when it did that light on the triangle either went out or was obscured by this other craft/orb because for 5 seconds that light could not be seen. Seen in Mary Brickell Village Miami, looking out to the South West.
I switched to video mode but my phone was too dark to see it well so I just kept clicking away in photo mode. My phone was at 5% and the screen went dark but I kept clicking away until it died. After 12 mins the 2 zippy crafts couldn't be seen any longer Then 3 mins later they disappeared, I did not see them leave a trail or shoot off, they just blinked out and were gone.
My phone died a few mins before that. I tried changing the settings of my phone but it's much harder than I expected to take photos in the sky and now I know why everyones photos look like bigfoot photos! I was able to turn on the location metadata though and I took about 20-25 photos to hopefully get a few in focus. If you want the rest let me know.
I picked the best 4. Notation 1: I got the impression these 3 lights were connected to 1 craft, but I could not see the craft only the lights. So I am not 100% sure it was a triangle craft and not 3 orbs flying in a triangle formation.
No blinking lights at all. Only 3 solid balls of light. They seemed to be changing from gold to white and the 1-2 zippy ones were usually white I think.
The triangle craft was slowly moving and slightly rotating, and the zippy one was fast or it as over here then bam over there. (both speeds) Notation 2: Yesterday for the first time ever, I downloaded the CE5 protocol App. and listened to a "Contact Meditation" and played all 5-6 contact tones.
I don't know if this had anything to do with this sighting or the fact that now I'm interested in UAP and starting to keep looking up now whenever I go outside. Just thought I should note that though. Thank you for this site and the work NUFORC does.
It's everything that MUFON should've been, but isn't. I recommend it on YouTube comments all the time. Keep looking up! These things are not just in the middle of nowhere, I saw this in downtown Miami! So they have to be everywhere!.
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2 orbs descending I saw an orange ball drop down out of the sky behind the neighbors roofline. And at the same time saw a bright white light drop straight down behind some trees. We were inside so didn't see where they came from.
It was dusk so could still see light from the sky and these were very bright.
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Large, silent green light moved very slowly NW towards Navy Base - abruptly changed course to SW and went supersonic (again, silent) I was riding a scooter back towards my hotel, after having dinner at the Hard Rock restaurant in Key West Florida. I was slowing down to approach a stop sign at the end of Caroline Street, at Whitehall Street. I did not have anything to drink that evening.
Cloud cover was low over the entire island. I noticed a large, green light just above the cloud cover, moving very slowly in a North-West direction, towards the Navy Base on Key West. When the light got fairly close to the Navy Base, it abruptly changed course in a South-West direction and sped up to a near-subsonic speed, quickly disappearing over the horizon (behind trees and buildings).
Immediately after it disappeared, at least 6 other people on the sidewalk along Caroline Street started exclaiming about the light and it's strange behavior, along with me. We all wondered about it for a while, then continued on our separate ways. During the entire experience, the UFO made absolutely no sounds - the abrupt change of course and speed did not appear to have any affect on the object.
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15 - 20 lights in line vanishing one by one into small cloud I was walking along the beach when I noticed a bright slashing light in the mid sky moving SE no crazy speed but steady. I went to take a video but my camera wouldn’t pick up anything and I believe that they were bright enough to have showed up on the screen but I got nothing. They were there about 35 seconds before disappearing one by one behind or into a small cloud and they were all gone.
I am still in shock it was pretty wild to see!.
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Starlink-101 (6-11) SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS.
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Large golden glowing diamond like shape that changed to a cylinder’ then a dot then disappeared. 8/26 returning from dinner with friends ( we don’t drink). My husband Tom and I turned off rt 27N onto Hook St made a left onto N Hancock and a right onto SR50 east on Clermont.
Tom was driving D I looked up this diamond shaped object glowing a deep golden color it was fairly close. I pointed it out to Tom and asked if he thought it was a UFO? He said he’d never seen one but it could be. As I watched it seemed to turn counterclockwise very slowly changing from the diamond shape to a cylinder to a small circle then it disappeared.
It didn’t go forward or backward it seemed to rotate in place before disappearing.
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White tic tac looking object in sky I saw all white tic tac shaped object moving across sky in blue sky. It was traveling faster than I’d expect N airplane to then it appeared to quickly slow speed. Trees got in way of view and after few seconds didn’t see it anymore.
There were no wings to object. I was able to take video just at very end of seeing it. I have the video but I’m not sure how to upload here.
I also took screenshots from the video.
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Saw an Oval Shaped Metallic Thing I was travelling South from South County Regional Park towards Carmelita Street. I happened to look up and noticed an Oval Metallic Thing traveling very fast from West to East at approximately 9:11 AM. At first, I thought it might be a plane as there is a small airport nearby.
I looked away for a brief second and it was gone. After thinking about it more, I realized the craft was flying too low and too fast for it to be landing nearby. Nothing like I have ever seen before.
This craft did not have wings.
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Second morning this week, flashing different colored lights, same location Before sunrise for the second morning this week I saw this seemed to be a round object moving quickly around with different colored lights, stayed in the same place. Unbelievable, this is out of this world!.
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Object stayed in one place in the sky for around 20 minutes then disappeared. Was sitting on the balcony having coffee. This object was flashing different colors and seemed to be changing shapes possibly.
This stayed in one place for around 20 minutes. I had to go in to get ready for work, looked out the window and it was gone.
Florida UFO Sightings By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Light | 1,514 reported sightings | 18.66% of all reports |
Circle | 927 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
Fireball | 786 reported sightings | 9.69% of all reports |
Triangle | 651 reported sightings | 8.02% of all reports |
Unknown | 544 reported sightings | 6.71% of all reports |
Sphere | 538 reported sightings | 6.63% of all reports |
Other | 528 reported sightings | 6.51% of all reports |
Disk | 428 reported sightings | 5.28% of all reports |
Oval | 373 reported sightings | 4.60% of all reports |
Changing | 237 reported sightings | 2.92% of all reports |
Formation | 231 reported sightings | 2.85% of all reports |
Cigar | 188 reported sightings | 2.32% of all reports |
Cylinder | 146 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
Rectangle | 142 reported sightings | 1.75% of all reports |
Flash | 123 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Chevron | 118 reported sightings | 1.45% of all reports |
Diamond | 110 reported sightings | 1.36% of all reports |
Teardrop | 67 reported sightings | 0.83% of all reports |
Egg | 64 reported sightings | 0.79% of all reports |
Orb | 37 reported sightings | 0.46% of all reports |
Cone | 25 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Cross | 25 reported sightings | 0.31% of all reports |
Star | 8 reported sightings | 0.10% of all reports |
Delta | 2 reported sightings | 0.02% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
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December | 783 reported sightings | 9.65% of all reports |
January | 761 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
July | 740 reported sightings | 9.12% of all reports |
April | 698 reported sightings | 8.60% of all reports |
October | 688 reported sightings | 8.48% of all reports |
March | 677 reported sightings | 8.34% of all reports |
November | 671 reported sightings | 8.27% of all reports |
June | 651 reported sightings | 8.02% of all reports |
September | 605 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
August | 604 reported sightings | 7.44% of all reports |
February | 578 reported sightings | 7.12% of all reports |
May | 560 reported sightings | 6.90% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings By Weekday
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the day of the week the sighting occured on.
Weekday | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Saturday | 1,428 reported sightings | 17.60% of all reports |
Friday | 1,194 reported sightings | 14.72% of all reports |
Sunday | 1,187 reported sightings | 14.63% of all reports |
Monday | 1,069 reported sightings | 13.18% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1,057 reported sightings | 13.03% of all reports |
Thursday | 1,050 reported sightings | 12.94% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1,031 reported sightings | 12.71% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings By Date (Top 5)
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the date the sighting occured on, limited to the top 5 dates with the most sightings.
Date | Sightings | % Of Total |
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04/30/20 | 29 reported sightings | 0.36% of all reports |
03/07/98 | 28 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
04/29/05 | 22 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 20 reported sightings | 0.25% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 18 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings By Time
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the time of day the sighting occured during. We took logical 4 hour windows in order to split the day into early morning, morning, afternoon, evening, night, and late night buckets for this analysis.
Time Of Day | Hours | Sightings | % Of Total |
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Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3,820 reported sightings | 47.08% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1,317 reported sightings | 16.23% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1,201 reported sightings | 14.80% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 756 reported sightings | 9.32% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 464 reported sightings | 5.72% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 458 reported sightings | 5.65% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Florida