Florida UFO Sightings in 1985

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triangle SHIP 60 to 80 feet high,SPEED 3 TO 5 MPH,I SAW IT ALL,. In 1985 i had to be at work early,so my seft,wife,frank went to help.arriving at the job site me began to unload the loader when I,standing on the loader I look up and out at the tree line and there before me was a SHIP it was no more than 60-80 feet off the ground,it had no sound,i was so close that i could see in side,what i call the coxpit;I have told others,I have been told to shut up,it don't work.

THEIR IS MORE BUT ONE STEP AT A TIME. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. We cannot be certain as to whether this is intended to be a serious report.

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Two ships, 500 feet away, over Tradewinds Park and as large as 2 to 3 football fields each I was driving north on the Florida Turnpike and saw the 2 ufo's hovering overhead. I turned to my passenger and told him to look up and tell me what he sees. He asked me to pull over quickly.

We stopped and watched for about four minutes two disk shaped objects about 500 feet over Tradewinds Park. There were fogged windows on each saucer and we could see shapes moving past them. The top was silver and the bottom was a glowing orange.

After awhile, the left saucer slowly moved south and blinked out of existence. About thirty seconds later the second did the same. When they departed, there was no sound whatsoever.

I am a general manager of an office in Ft. Lauderdale and my passenger worked with me. I also called the Sun Sentinel and they said there was already over a thousand calls about this sighting.

Then, I called the Washington State UFO Bureau and they wanted a response from me. I sent a letter with a map showing where the sighting was, a picture drawn by me of these ships and a description, but never received an answer. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.

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Summer 1985 sighting It was the Summer of 1985 (mid July) around 10:00 p.m. on a clear night.

I was in the front yard looking in my telescope. I suddenly noticed a large "Fireball" in the southern sky headed westward (it was so large it wasn't moving). I ran in the house to get my parents to come outside to see it.

Within 15 seconds we were outside, but my dad looked straight up and as I was about to tell him to look in the southern sky I looked up and saw an object I still can't believe. The Triangle object was huge and was over our heads in a northeast direction. It moved slowly and made no noise.

It had some type of gaseous clouds in it and had some types of starry lights in it. When I say "in it", I mean you could see through it as it was pure black (not metallic). But it was definitely a triangle object and as it traveled northeast, we could still see it about 2 miles away as it traveled over the phosphate mine.

My aunt was hanging up clothes and yelled down to us "What is it, What is that?" We yelled back "We don't know!" I called the local radio station and they said many people called in about the fiery object I saw and they said it was simply a fallen satellite. I agree that it was a fallen satellite in the south because I've seen those before, but what we saw 20 years ago I can't explain. Whatever it was, it had something to do with the fallen satellite.

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I was driving my 8 year old son from daycare back home on 441 about 2 miles norh of Eustis, FLorida one spring evening in 1985. I was driving south and looked to the right and saw an extremely bright light about 5000 feet. It was dusk but the light was cleary visible and I pulled over to the side of the road.

I and my son exited the vehicle. I then observed the light send a beam of light to the earth. My son was having difficulty locating the light so i kneeled down and held his face and pointed it in the direction of the light.

At this point the light beam quickly retracted into the light source and the light source then flashed across the horizon at an incredible speed and vanished. The light source didnt look like a solid object. The most fascinating thing was how the beam dropped to earth and retracted.

There were no helicopters or planes visible in the sky just the light source. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.

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THE OBJECT WAS STATIONERY A FEW HUNDRED FEET IN FRONT OF ME I LIVE ON THE BEACH IN A CONDOMINIUM IN HALLANDALE BEACH FLORIDA.THIS GOES BACK IN THE 1980'S.IN THE EARLY MORNING ABOUT 2AM I JUST HAPPENED TO GO INTO THE LIVING ROOM AND LOOKED OUT FROM MY TERRACE.

I LIVE ON THE 9TH FLOOR AND ABOUT A FEW HUNDRED FEET AWAY LITERALLY IN FRONT OF ME I SAW A CIRCULAR OBJECT WITH DIFFERENT COLORED LIGHTS ON THE BOTTOM OF THIS CRAFT.IT WASN'T A VERY LARGE OBJECT.IT WAS STATIONERY FOR A FEW MINUTES AND THEN WITHIN SECONDS IT SPED OFF VERY FAST GOING EAST OVER THE OCEAN.

THE NEXT DAY THERE WERE REPORTS ON TELEVISION AND NEWSPAPERS OF SIGHTINGS OF UFO'S.IF I HAD A CAMERA AT THAT TIME I WOULD BE A MILLIONAIRE TODAY.THE FACT IS I KNOW I SAW IT .

AND IT WAS PRETTY CLOSE.NOT THOUSANDS OF FEET IN THE SKY. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

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White dots fade in and out I seen two ufo on my life this was the second time not any thing like the first ,, I always wanted to turn it ,, I have never heard of a report like this And I have been a coast to coast am ,,, for years,, I was in a 71 cutlas supreme ,, I had my head out the back window right side I was facing North looking up if you can picture that angle ,, any way they faded in ?? Intel they were whole they turned up for a ways than went. Right than faded back out ,, might need to explain on a phone ,, I was all ways waiting for someone to say they had saw the same thing but have never heard a report like this ,, now I'm 65 and want to turn it in,,, so it will be known ,, if guess it look like way above earth to the North ,, maybe the size of my little finger nail if I put my arm out ,, white in color the whole time ,, I thought at the time they faded in , made a course correction ,, when they fade in the bottom one come first than the second one the one one the bottom w! as out in front so when they turn up they not hit ,, and when going up the one on the left went a little faster so when they turn right they not touch ,, they both were the same distance apart the whole time ,, and when they turn they made 90° turns not curves they were going from West to east,, I felt like they were out past the orbit of the moon ,, put they could have been closer !! I also thought you could put 8 - 10 in a full moon ,,, I wish I could draw a photo to understand the fade in and out than you I know this is old but it's what I saw never forget !!.

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1985 Black Triangle On this summer night, I was 15 years old and looking through my telescope towards the southeast sky when suddenly I saw a HUGE orange fireball with a long tail in the direct southern sky over the tree line behind our house. I ran in the house and yelled for my family to run outside and see it. About 15-20 seconds went by before we got outside, my dad was first to get outside and was looking directly upwards in the middle of the night sky.

As I was about to tell him to go further in the yard to look to the south, I looked up and witnessed a large black triangle-shaped object directly over our house moving in a north-east direction. My aunt lived about 500 yards to our north and was hanging clothes and also saw the object. The UFO was very silent with some sort of white gases and some kind of faded starred lights in the middle of it that seemed to move with the object.

I remember thinking to myself that how could such a large object make no noise. It went dir! ectly over the local phosphate mine (2 miles away) where my uncle worked and we watched it for about 30 seconds until it was out of sight over the mine. Due to the dark sky, it is difficult to judge the altitude of the object, but I believe it was about 2-3 miles high.

My dad said if it was 100 miles high, it would be the size of Florida. The next day on local radio, my dad said that he heard many people calling and talking about an object they witnessed. I don't know if the fireball and the triangle object were related, but I believe they were.

Presently, my dad is still an auto mechanic, my mom and aunt retired from careers in education, and I will begin my 23rd year as a teacher in August. That one minute in time changed my life as we were extremely fortunate to be witnesses to something that we still speak of to this day as we are still astonished.

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Me and my girlfriend was coming home and got out of the car and she told me to look up in the sky and I did but I didn’t see any anything and that’s when she said over there way up out in space and that when I seen this light slaking up in space and all of a second it shot across so fast and stop like it had brakes in space and it started shaking again and then shot across space so fast again and shopped and fro about 5 second and shot out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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Huge low hovering craft with different rectange shapes on it. Sorry, I am in the process of getting a new computer and I can not type on Word. My computer was badly corrupted.

I hope you can still accept this message from me. I want to comment on the Casselberry Florida sightings if I may. I myself, my husband, my mother, and my Niece were at Dog Track Road and Hwy 17-92 at the red light about 11:00 sometime in the middle 1980's and we saw something very strange.

I myself heard a low hum and I said what is that sound? My family and I looked up out from our windows and saw what appeard to us as a huge low hovering object that seemed to be the size of the car lot that was at the light. I remember saying that looks like something off of Battlestar Galactica. We all saw it.

It also seemed to have different colored rectangle shpaes on the bottom of it which was the part we were looking up at from our car to the best of my memory. Some of the rectangles were smaller than others. I think I remember a Purple color.

However, we have told ourselves over the years it was something we have made to much out of so it has been disregaurded, but has always been a memory that I would like to know if anyone else has ever seen anything like it before. I saw the comments by someone on this sight that lives near a dog track in Casselberry, and I'm thinking it must be the Old Dog Track on Dog Track road in Casselberry. The placement of their sightings and sounds near the palce we saw strange things has prompted me to e-mail this.

I will make one last comment, I do remember being kind of scared and my husband said lets get out and see it closer and I remember saying, "No, way!" I'm not getting out of this car. We drove on throug the intersection when it was our turn to go and it appeard to be done. If there were any other cars at that red light that night it couldn't have been very many since it was late at night.

How do I know when someone could respond to my message? I will try to get my Micrsoft Office to work for me. Sorry, again! ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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My two children and their friends ,playing on a swingset in our backyard,in tampa fl. called to me , "come outside mom nd see the ufo's. I thought they were playing and went outside to see.

when I looked up in the sky I saw to silver shapes that looked like two nickels. we watched them they stayed in the same place for about 5 minutes and then they disappeared.after hearing you on coast to coast am.

I felt like you would like to hear our story. I have never reported this before, thank you for your website and coast to coast am. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate.

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UFO seen in St. Pete, Fl This all happened back in 1985/86 time frame during summer months. My girl friend and myself was driving East bound on 38th Ave N.

in St.Petersburg, FL, just east of 275. The black object was just hovering above a home on the north side of the street.

As you may or may not know, MacDill Airforce Base is located just east of St Pete, across Tampa Bay. This object was not from MacDill! I could make a clay relica that would give a more realistic shape. After moving back to the area, I recently contacted my ex-girl friend, and we both still think about it and talk to others about the experience.

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strange lights moveing in a circle There were four oval shaped transparent lights not any larger than a large plate and were about 30 ft from the ground and the lights would all move in a circle a few times then stop and all the lights would rush to meet in the middle bounce back out and then move in a circle in the oposite direction and this was repeated over and over.There was no sound at all and also the lights moved sorta up and down as they moved in a circle. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate.

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Triangle shaped dark craft hovers and then flys off at phenomenal speed I was walking my small dog one night in Orlando College Park area. I heard what I thought was a whirring sound of a helicopter and saw lights and assumed it was a helicopter landing at the nearby hospital. It began to fly directly over me and hovered, when I looked up, I realized (gulp) that it looked nothing like a helicopter and looked like a small version of a stealth jet, which of course cannot hover.

It had very bright lights emanating from it all around the sides and at least one shining down from the bottom of the craft. I looked over to my dog and she was looking up at it and was mesmerized, but not barking, which she would normally do at loud big things. I looked back up at the object, which was about 40 to 50 feet above us, and it suddenly moved sideways for about 200 feet, then went up into space at an incredible speed that within 30 seconds, it was up so high it looked like a star.

I had never seen anything move that fast ever. My father was an air force pilot, so I am familiar with planes and jets. For days afterward, my dog just lay around listless, and I felt strange as well, extreme fatigue yet a blissful mental state.

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I was driving home into the apartment complex that had an entrance ramp at about a 45% degree looking up towards the sky and I saw a bright metal shining orb just hovering in front of me , I then observed approximately 20 smaller orbs shooting out in different directions and as soon as the smaller orbs were gone the larger orb just shot up straight up and in a flash it was gone.

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3 Large circular objects over North Miami I was in an area of North Miami called San Souci Blvd. I was sitting in the living room of a friends apartment on the 3rd floor. The living room faced the balcony that overlooked the tennis courts.

All of the sudden the balcony and part of the living room floor turned bright orange. I thought that was strange, as I opened the balcony door I heard people yelling (I could not remember what they were saying). Everyone was looking at the sky.

As I looked up all I can see was that the sky was being covered by something light orange. As I looked at it I really did not understand what it was. I looked at the people on the tennis courts and some of them were running inside the building while a few stayed there point up.

I remember looking up and down several times. It covered the whole horizon. I could not see where it ended.

It must have been a few 100 ft above me. About 20 seconds into the experience, it started to move straight up at a great speed with no noise. I would say another 10 seconds later I noticed the outline of what seemed to be a circle with an outer ring and a glowing orange/red center.

It moved straight up at a great speed. My eyes started to water because I could not stay focus on the object. Soon afterwards I noticed two more similiar objects one on each side for a total of three.

As it was moving up it started to move toward the direction of the east, toward the ocean. It finally disapeard, and when I realized what I just saw I looked around me and my friend the owner of the apartment was standing next to me rubbing her eyes with tears. Why eyes were also watered, with a little discomfort.

The people below on the tennis courts yelled at us asking if we saw it. We told them we did. We asked them were did it come from, and they said it just rolled over the building and everything turned orange.

I have told this experience to all my friends throuht out the years. No one believes me, but I know what I saw was real. I don't see my friend any more, but many years later we met by accident, and the first thing she asked me if I remember that day when we saw the orange glow.

I told her yes, it is something that I have never forgoten. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).

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explosion and orbs in carribean waters I was at a party in Florida, made up of developers/realtors/excersise enthusiasts, etc. One started telling a story of when he supervised hauling barges across the carribean. He manned the main tug.

One night, very late, they witnessed a very large explosion miles away - sufficiently powerful to fully illuminate the barge they were towing which was a city block behind them so that it was completely lit. He cut loose his lead tug and went to investigate, expecting to find debris. He found nothing.

He then commented how he several times has seen sizable glowing orbs moving beneath his ships under the water in formation in this area. This was immediately followed by another partyer who recalled camping with his dad and brother in a state park in NY state, one that had restricted air. They were out ((deleted)) under the stars, when they noticed a large glowing object floating above the nearby trees.

It took off, immediately to be chased by 3 US military aircraft - again, all in a no-fly zone. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Very large UFO, irregular in shape, glowing red-orange craters, below cloud level, no noise, reported in paper as space debris. I realize that this is a very old sighting, but felt that it was too significant to not share with others, and see if there are any other reports of it on record. I was approximately 15 years old when I saw this UFO.

It was approximately 9:00 PM. It was a moonlit night, and there were many cumulus clouds in the sky that were bright white from the moonlight. I was sitting outside my house with 4 of my neighbor friends when I noticed a very large object slowly drifting across the sky.

All of us saw it. The object was extremely large; much larger than a blimp. I would estimate the size to be at least 100 yards in length.

At first I could not tell the altitude of the object but then realized that it was very close because it blocked out the clouds as it silently drifted over us. I listened carefully for an engine noise, but there was none audible. The object was irregularly shaped.

The best way I can describe it was that it looked like a large rock; appearing at least 4 times larger in diameter than it was in height. The object was rough and had many craters (resembling the texture of asteroids I've seen photos of). The craters emitted a dull glowing red-orange light.

I could not actually see the source of this light, the light instead seemed to be reflecting off the craters of the object from a source within it. The object did not vary in speed, direction, or altitude. The object was visible for at least 5 minutes before it finally drifted out of sight.

During the sighting I knocked (no banged) on several neighbors doors to have them also witness what my friends and I were seeing in the sky. When the neighbors would come outside to find out what was going on they were awestruck with what they saw in the sky. It was no doubt to any of us that what we saw was not of this world, and was a UFO.

The next day I looked in the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper for information about what we saw the previous night. I was sure that many hundreds of people must have seen the same thing we saw in the sky.

I thought that surely it was reported by many people. I finally found a very small article in the back of the paper that said (to paraphrase) "There were numerous reports of an unidentified object in the sky last night. There is no need to be alarmed, it has been confirmed that this was only space debris".

"Space Debris!!!" I thought. Well this was no space debris. I am sure that the object was within our atmosphere because it blocked out the clouds as it drifted overhead.

The object had no wings. It had no engine or propulsion device that I could see nor hear. This object should have fallen to the ground if it were space debris, but instead it defied gravity and drifted across the sky.

I am sure that this sighting must have been reported to UFO reasearchers by others that also witnessed it. I did not save a copy of the article that I read so recently I attempted to search the database of the St. Petersburg Times to find an archive of this article but the database online does not go back that far.

I am hoping that there is eveidence on file of this sighting. Could you please tell me if you have any record of this. As I mentioned this was a very large UFO and plainly visible in the evening at approximately 21:00 hours.

The Date is just an estimate as I was a teenager at the time and guess that I was approximately 15 years of age. Thank you. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate.

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