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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 10 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 1972 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 60.00% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 06/30/72 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 30.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the late night, between the hours of 00:00 - 03:59 (4 reports, 40.00% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 1972
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 1972, 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).
Full Report Text:
This was more of an audible sighting instead of a visual. At approx. 3:00 in the morning, my backyard suddenly lit up with a brilliant bright, white light.
The light came from above the trees because the shadows looked like shadows at noon. There was no wind to disturb any of the trees or shrubbery. Above the trees were yellow and red strobing lights.
Accompaning the bright lights was a very high pitch warbling sound (think typical sci-fi sound effect). I pulled on some pants and ran outside with my dad but by this time the object had turned on what sounded like a jet engine and headed toward the east. The warbling continued but the primary sound was one of a jet.
With the departure of the object, everything returned to quiet. We have rarely spoken about this incident. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
The four of us were have a meditation and spiritual group exchange and as we were each taking turns talking about spiritual matters a craft appeared in the night sky. We were inside the apartment but the living room window was so big you could see much of the sky. I ran outside an stood on the grass looking up directly at the craft, which was glowing orange,a typical saucer, with a stobe light revolving around the top.
The strobe was very bright, and cast a kind or liquid shimmering light. I waved my arms at the craft which appeared to be just below the cumulus clouds, the lowest clouds in the sky. As I was observing the saucer I saw two lights coming towards it from opposite sides, and thinking they might be airplanes, I thought a collision was going to happen.
But the two lights seemingly merged,or entered the larger saucer, and the craft hovered there for about 10 more minutes. Then a large cloud obscured the craft, and I could no longer see it. I would s! ay the saucer was about twice the size of a commercial blimp roughly, and whether the craft was physical or etherean I could not say, because the craft was a steady glowing orange color, and it appeared that the light it emitted was internal,glowing outward.
So, I would speculate that perhaps it wasn't a physical craft but of light only. It had definite defined features, I did'nt see windows, but the strobe revolved at a consistent speed, and it obviously wasn't man made. The two smaller lights that merged with it I presume were probes or some sort.
The whole sighting lasted about 15 or 20 minutes. This sighting happened in the early 1970s and about the time when some of my friends were also claiming to have a number of UFO sightings. Thank you.
((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
N ine colored hovering spheres and helicopters rbelow spotted from holiday lake est. over florida power nine round spheres glowing diffrent brillint colores just before dark spaced evenly apart not moveing. over florida power plant.
then a bunch of helicopters came from the south far below the spheres ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date in 1972 is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
UFO Sighting June/July 1972 I was leaving Sanford Florida heading to Orlando, Florida at 2 a.m. running normal speed of 45-50 mph when my car radio shut completely off, a minute later the headlights went off completely, a minute later the car shut off.
I coasted the car off the shoulder of the road. I looked to the right hand side of the road, but felt lightheaded and then that’s when I saw an object that looked like a spaceship spinning round and round, the most color I recognized was blue then I saw 2 objects that appeared to look like aliens. The objects came toward me and took me into the spaceship.
After that I don’t remember what happened. After gaining conscious they brought me back 10ft toward my car and I opened the door, got back in the car in a daze. I then started the car, the lights and radio came back on.
The aliens stood still for a while then they got back into the spaceship and it hovered directly over my car then they took off like a supersonic speed and I never saw anything li! ke it again. About 20 years ago I touched and felt a small lump in my right thigh and I started associating that with the unknown experience from the UFO. Currently I am having medical illness on the right side of my body.
I have had all types of medical tests done, i.e. MRI, CAT scans, orthopedic, pain management and other types of medical treatment that does not alleviate the problem I experience daily.
Please help me identify if possibly something was physically done or inserted into my body while inside the UFO. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Stars that were moving in Formation. After work I was at my grandmothers house as I always do working in a Local band getting home late… The sky's in Roanoke, Virginia, at night are crystal clear with great view a blanket thick were you could spend hours gazing (No city lights made them stand out). Off towards the NW over Highway 81 11:00 o-clock high I noticed around 6-8 stars that were moving all in formation very slowly.
The lights were no difference in contrast as the stationary stars except these were slowly moving.It was really strange because how could stars cross in formation across the sky?.The stars did not sparkle and never changed relationship to each other.
it was something I'll never forget.They were not aircraft for certain.at first my brain couldn't comprehend what was happening.
it was because the stationary stars did not move and there were so many of them one had to focus to see the group.The group went from left to right across the sky and slowly faded away! .I've told my wife years later and family but told no one at that time mainly because I was by myself(No one was up at 3:00 am never not even a neighbor) sighting it was near Mill Mountian people that live there know what I'm saying about that hour.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting in 1972 is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Hovered at the same distance apart, and just zoomed off away from me. As I was driving to a friends house I noticed a series of lights that seemed to keep up with me, The were spaced apart at the same distance, appreared to be five of them, with lights of blue clear, and red flashing, line a line on each object, which appeared to be of a disc in shape. I finally stopped the car and got our.
I watched these objects hover, and as they did move they did not lose their distancce apart. but moved in a line from west to east, as I watched I noticed to the right that three more of them just appeared, as they seem to have come in a straight line toward me til I saw them, as the threw stationed themselvess to the west of the others they then all seemed to just back up and thier lights just faded as they took flight backwards. I was left in a daze of fear and disbelief.
I as with many others have been afraid to tell this to anyone other than my mother and now my children and husband. I have often thought of being regressed to that time to see what all that I might reveal, because it seemed I lost time.
Full Report Text:
my friends (ship) i was in the back yard of a friends house and we looked up and saw a ship round with a doom on top with a few windows below the doom around the ship was a few more windows. at the bottom of the ship was a beem comeing down it stayed there for a few felt like secands then started to drift up .out of sight all the people around the community that knew my friend called to see if we had seen it.
you know i know there is something there i am just afraid for them. if they was to come because the way it is here on this earth. its no wonder they havent surfaced.
i am telling you the trouth but everytime itry to tell someone they tell me yea i saw one too. they do not belive me. ever since this insident i cant get enough wonting to learn about different things i stay constantly trying to contact them by at night looking up for them it has been over 30 years no more but i read all the time about the ufo and hopefuly one day i will see the ship again or mabe them.
i never say a alian just the shipit was around 2:00am please email me i would like to talk to you i need to for noone ever belive me. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. We do not know what the witness saw.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
i saw a ship and i know it was not ours. i was visiting some friends in two egg mariana fl. and we were out in the back of house and we looked up and saw this round silvery looking ship with a dome on top with a light and around were three small windows with light and at the bottom was a beem beening down and it hovered ther for a while and started to drift untill it drifted up out of sight people were calling the house asking did we see it did we see it? and that was from five miles away.
i know there is another planet out there some where with life. ive seen nothing since other than odd looking lites in sky dont pay no attention for that i know what i saw in 1972.
Full Report Text:
30'L,10'W: plated chromium sheets (mirror finish). 2'wide streching fore to aft. A slight shadow effect where the windshield should be.
The craft approached from due east just above the Boca inlet at appox. 100 m.p.
h.(estimated) and as it approached it performed a complete 360 degree barrel roll within 50', giving my other witness and I complete and unobsturctive view of the top of the craft. Close enough to notice no rivets were used to hold the plates together.
One aspect that should be noted ; (there was no sound) a third member of our party was at least 10 to 15 feet closer up the sand dunes than ((initials of witness #2 deleted)) and I were, and yet he saw nor heard anything! Roll your lips into a big "O" and blow ; sounds just like a U.F.O.
to me! I only had time to get off one statement to them and I said, "Thats not nice!" Oh yea , I pointed a finger at them , you guess which one. ((initials of witness deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Sphere Lights up, goes out intermittently, silent, fast, came close, 5 minutes watching My girlfriend and I were on the primary dunes in a sparsly populated area of the beach. It was a clear starry night, comfortable temps. I thought I'd seen a star go out and mentioned it.
As we watched, it came back on, repeating this on a few seconds then off. It approached to about 50 yards out in the gulf, dropped to the water, raised back up, came in to where the water (calm) met the shore. Hovered about 30 feet away from us, 10 feet off the ground, silently.
It was spherical and just smaller than a soccer ball. We stood up, I took one step to go look closer, it took off in an arc to the sky westward, must have covered 3 miles in a second or better. Years later, I was contacted by my friend and I asked her to recount the story.
She still had the same story I had, except that as we stood. She wanted to run away. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although the witness does not indicate that fact.
PD)).
Florida UFO Sightings From 1972 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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Circle | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1972 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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June | 6 reported sightings | 60.00% of all reports |
March | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
July | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1972 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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Friday | 5 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1972 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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06/30/72 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
06/15/72 | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
09/15/72 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
03/24/72 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
03/15/72 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1972 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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Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 40.00% of all reports |
Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 3 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1972
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 1972
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Panama City | 2 UFO Reports | Panama City UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Chermont | 1 UFO Reports | Chermont UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Two Egg | 1 UFO Reports | Two Egg UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Boca Raton | 1 UFO Reports | Boca Raton UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Two Egg Mariana | 1 UFO Reports | Two Egg Mariana UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Tarpon Springs | 1 UFO Reports | Tarpon Springs UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Roanoke | 1 UFO Reports | Roanoke UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Sanford | 1 UFO Reports | Sanford UFO Sightings in 1972 |
North Miami | 1 UFO Reports | North Miami UFO Sightings in 1972 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.