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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 14 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 1988 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (4 reports, 28.57% of total).
- June is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 50.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 42.86% of total).
- 06/01/88 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 42.86% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 42.86% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 1988
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 1988, 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:
turning into the street,we saw in front of us a huge yellow globe,it was about 200' ahead. decided to go around the block to get abetter look. the huge bright yellowish unit was 2 to 3 times the size of the house it was behind,it seemed to have a gasous emission toward the bottom of the globe,when i tried to see it from the side it was gone,it could not have taken me more than 10 to 15 seconds to go around the block.
this all took place about 10 years ago we had come to flordia to visit my kids who at that time lived in the weleby part of ft lauderdale, we had left the kids and went to a movie,this all happened when we were returning home that evening.
Full Report Text:
we decided to report this after watching some ufo tv program with a person having the same experience. my wife was at the balcony and call me to watch some lights in the night sky. the night was clear with many stars but not clouds (only a formation of clouds in the middle of the sky or our panoramic view of the sky).
there were at least 5 light moving in erratic way light trembling (not flashing but moving in zig zag many times and very fast). the light also left some kind of trail after their flight. there was not a beam light from the ground and not a plane or any other flying machines as we know.
the movements were so weird, so fast and so impossible for a airship. then the lights gone behind the small formation of clouds in the middle of the sky and never went out again (as if they stopped their flight behind that small formation of clouds). my wife and i stayed there in the balcony for perhaps 30 minutes but the lights never went out form behind that small formation of clouds.
many days after that my wife told me about a big light in the balcony but sh! e fall sleep normally, like if she was under some kind of pills. the following night i watched the big light and i fall sleep in the same way. i fill a peace and a feeling of normal status and i do not put interes in the big light.
that big light was not a plabe, not the moon, not even a man with a flashlight in the balcony (the most close description to that). it looks like a floating light in the air. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
PD)).
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They disappeared behind the only cloud in the sky. My wife and I in our balcony terrace. She was 22 and I was 31.
Around five in the morning. The sky was clear. No clouds except only one small dark cloud in the center of the sky.
Then appear 3 lights in our vision focus (I mean behind buildings). from west to east, with erratic movement. They were not airplanes.
No sound. Very fast pace and erratic up and down movements. Two of the lights were rounded and the third light was like a cigarette.
The three light were yellow. The rare thing was the three went behind the only cloud in the sky and then disappeared. I mean, the lights did not go out from that cloud.
We stand there for about 3o more minutes to see if the lights go out but the lights never go out from that cloud in the center of the sky. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. Date may be approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Large undenible object. 100 feet off the ground. I was right underneth it.
The size and shape of a football field. It was about 10pm. I was camping of sorts on my balcony do to relitives visiting.
While I was looking at the moon I saw a very large object. I just saw the bottom at first as it passed over the apartment building I was living in. I didn't know what I was looking at.
The first thing I thought as I started to see more and more of the bottom of the craft, is that it was a blimp (having never seen a blimp). I noticed no sound because I could still hear crickets and palmento bugs cherping. The wasn't but maybe 100 feet off the top of the building.
Once I saw the entire bottom of the craft it was huge. A massive rectangle in shape, I would say the size of a football field. That is 50 yards in width and 100 yards in length.
It was close enough to see that the craft was made of what appeared to be metal. It had semetrical design that's to say I could see long flat "beams" (like I beams used in construction) they kind of criscrossed over the objects' undersurface meeting in a triangel pattern. In each triangle had it's own semitery a circular indentation and a receded light that was not very visible a sort of green in color.
As it passed completely overhead and I could see the end of the object I was looking for the balloon part of the blimp and it wasn't there, it wasn't until that moment that I realized it wasn't a blimp. The object was thin at Max. 4 feet in depth.
That was when I ran inside screaming there is a UFO outside! I was met with "ya right". By the time I got someone to come outside with me it had moved off so all me and my cousen could see the rear edge of the craft. She said "where is the UFO" I said "it's right there" (pointing at the object as it was moving away) And she said "no it's not" I replied "Do you see something right there?" she says "ya" I replied "That is a UFO" ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
The object stayed in the same location and traveled vertically I was driving north on 441in the afternoon. I saw a giant capital M of light above a tree in a field. At times, I stopped and got out of my car to look and others times I would just look back to watch it.
It stayed in the same place for a few minutes, appeared to collapse into a point of light, stayed there a few minutes, and disappeared. I stood watching and then it reappeared above where it was as a point of light. It stayed there a few minutes and disappeared again.
It then reappeared at a higher elevation, stayed for a few minutes, and then disappeared again. It did that 3 times in total. The last time it stayed stationary for a few minutes, disappeared, and then reappeared once more at the original location where it had appeared as a capital M of light.
It stayed there a few minutes and then disappeared. At the time I was a student in Radiology. I was traveling to Gainesville.
No one else seemed to notice it. When I arrived at my destination, I was excited and told people, but they all dismissed me. The next day, I looked in the paper and listened to the news and nothing was ever mentioned.
It was in the afternoon and was a very sunny day. There is no way that no one else saw it. There was plenty of traffic on the same road going both ways.
I never hear anyone describe anything like what I witnessed.
Full Report Text:
I saw object but my family did not even though they were with me. I don't remember much since i was 8, but I cam outside and looked up. Flying over head was a triangular shaped white object heading from west to east.
it disapeared oversome trees. Even though I was not alone, only I saw it. ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate, although witness does not indicate that fact.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
UFO's that looked like stars moving quickly. My friend and I were looking through a telescope when he saw something he couldn't explain. He told me to look, and when I did, I saw two small lights.
They looked like stars but they were moving in a sideways figure-eight in opposite directions. One making the figure-eight in one direction and the other in the opposite direction. It was a small pattern and they were moving fast.
We went into the house and tried to get our parents to come a look, but they refused. When we came back, they were gone. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Hovering Sphere over the ocean My then girlfriend and I were sitting on the beach and talking. My girlfriend looked away out to the water and had a surprised look on her face. I turned to see what she was looking at and there was a sphere that seemed to be about 10 to 20 feet in diameter hovering silently about 10 feet above the water about 500 feet out from the shore.
You could see it's reflection in the water below. It had multi colored lights evenly distributed around its surface. Similar to what a globe would look like if you put a light at each intersection of a lat and long.
It was spinning, but not an any axis - more like a tumble in many different directions - the lights made it easy to see the tumbling effect. After hovering there for about a minute, it sped south down the coast toward Daytona and over the horizon. It was over the horizon and out of site within 10 seconds and moving at a high rate of speed.
But it was completely silent. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
My dad and I were traveling on I - 4 heading towards Deltona (Where my parents live) when I heard a whistleing noise that was increasing. I looked out the passenger side of the car and saw a saucer shaped U.F.
O. flying past the car heading towards the ground. My dad, who was driving, said "look at that".
I turned to see hom looking out the top of the windshield of the car and I looked up. There was another U.F.
O. flying over the top of the car, heading towards the ground and over the highway. I remember him saying "There's no engine noise".
The U.F.O.
's were a bright, but not blinding, white light. The one that flew over the car, I could see the underside, which was dark. But I could see rounded shaped objects, about 3 or 4.
Perhaps lights enclosers? The U.F.O.
's then both flew towards the Highway meeting near the ground. Then they BOTH WENT STRAIGHT UP INTO THE DARK SKY, SIDE BY SIDE. They seperated once they got very high into the sky.
One went over to the left and the other went towards the right. There they sat still, real high in the sky. The one on the left, I was able to watch a while, was blinking on and off it's light.
The U.F.O.
's were saucer shaped, and they were of a white light. They whistled when they were traveling at a great speed. It sounded like the front window vent opened of a truck or like the window vents of the older cars of the sixty's.
The whistleing became louder as they went past us. The light coming off the U.F.
O.'s was bright, but NOT a blinding light. I was amazed, to say the least.
My dad to this day will NOT talk about it. The U.F.
O. that went over the car was round and dark when I looked up, but as it came down in front of the car, I was able to then see the sides of it. It also was a white lighted, and saucer shaped.
The two U.F.O.
's then met each other, VERY close to the Highway, in front of us, ABOUT (Approx.) 200 hundred yards, then they shot STRAIGHT UP, side by side, into the sky. They seperated, once they got very high into the night sky.
The one on our left, went to the left and the one on our right went towards the right. I sat there watching the one on the right out the right side of the car for as long as I could see it. It moved around a bit, from side to side, then it sat still.
It looked like a star at that point. It was blinking on and off it's light. We were traveling on I-4, heading East towards Deltona, where my parents live.
We were out side city limits of Altamonte Springs, Florida. I want to say around Lake Mary, Florida when we saw them. I have read many books of U.
F.O.'s since then.
My father still will not talk about it when ever I bring it up, which is very frustrating for me. The U.F.
O.'s were Approx. 40 feet in Diameter.
I was absolutly amazed when they shot straight up. Nothing happened to the car while we observed this. There were other cars on the Highway, besides us.
The cars that were heading West, on the other side, looked like they slowed down a bit when the U.F.O.
's were coming down in front of us. I talked to a Mr. ((name deleted)) about my story once, back in about 1994.
He claimed that he was a U.F.O.
researcher and he knew people that seriously researched U.F.O.
's. I felt really good telling him about it.! I wasn' t met with "yeah right" sort of thing that most people react to.
I have NOT told any one else about it exept my husband and of course my mom upon arriving to my parents house. I know that my dad has not told anyone. I have only gotten him to say that he saw "Something".
I am now 42 years old. I was 31 years old when we saw the U.F.
O.'s in the Fall of 1988. My dad is now in his 70's.
I only want to be contacted through my E-mail address, or by my house mail. I do not think my husband would like for me to be doing this. I did not even tell him about my meeting with Mr.
((name deleted)). I wish not to be contacted by my telephone.
Full Report Text:
venice beach sighting orange lights at dusk on the beach in Venice Florida, high in the sky, a orange light,moving across sky, stoped in mid flight, the orange light was a honeycomb light, then came on a second honeycomb light below this one at a angle, then a third one come on, and stayed for short time, then each light turned off one at a time,, and dissappeared, it was a cloudy out at time.
Full Report Text:
I was in my bedroom which was at the we corner of our home on a canal. I just got home from work and was laying on my bed under the window facing the water, when I saw a bright, color-changing, shimmering light, with a bright spotlight shining in the yard of a neighbor. Dark oval/egg like object that made no noise.
Did not speak of it for over a year, until a neighbor mentioned it half heartedly. When I told her I saw it too, she turned ghost white and fell to the ground crying.
Full Report Text:
It was a clear night, 2AM and on my way to my parents home. I was traveling West on Commercial Blvd. Turned North, onto, one block East of the Sawgrass Parkway.
(Can't think of the name of that Rd.) As far as I could see, I spotted a tiny dot of bright light as far as my eyes could see to the North. Before I cold take a breath, the UFO skimmed along the top of the tree lined Road.
It made NO sound what so ever. My heart jumped, and I jammed my breaks on. It seemed to travel in a perfectly straight line over the tree tops.
I could ot determine how high the object was. When I turned around after stopping, It was absolutely gone. ((NUFORC Note: Date in 1988 is approximate.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
six light in a triangle shape of green color and flying slowly ant just above treetops with no sound. This is the first UFO I saw.I am lucky enough to have seen two.
Me and my wife were traveling to Louisiana to see my Daughter and grand kids.It was around 1 or 2 am on hwy10.Exactly where we were at I didnt notice.
We were to busy talking about what we saw.I was driving along and noticed these lights coming for my right and about a mile away.As I got closer they were crossing hwy10 and I drove under them just as they were above the trees to my left.
I looked out the window and tried to see under them but they were flying so low that they almost touched the tree tops only maybe 50 or less above them and disapeared above the trees.They were 6 lights with 3 each in the shape of a triangle but kind of out of shape not perfectly triangle.They were green like the light on my computer not bright.
No sound with the speed of a helicopter.
Full Report Text:
Summary : One evening I looked 100' ahead and 100' high and saw what looked like stadium lights in a vacant field where there was no lighting whatsoever. At apporox. the above date and time I was sitting in my car in front of my girlfriends house.
We were arguing and she was sitting in the front passenger seat yelling at me. I looked out my front windshield and approx. 100' ahead of me and 100' high I saw what appeared to be '3' rows of stadium type lighting.
The lights were all white, but not bright enough that you couldn't look at it. At first glance I thought nothing of it. I blew it off as stadium lighting or some kind of neighborhood lighting.
I then turned back to listen to what my girlfriend was saying. Suddenly, it hit me.There is no lighting in that area.
The only thing in that area is a vacant field. (approx. 1 square acre).
So I quickly turned my head back toward the lights and said, "What is that!?". Before my girlfriend could turn her head to observe it, the lights disappeared. It was as if someone turned off the light switch.
I was frozen with disbelief. I didn't say anything or take my eyes off of! the spot. I didn't even say another word.
My girlfriend kept asking me "what?", "What was it?", "Talk to me you're scaring me.". I didn't talk.
I just slowly got out of my car, walked directly to the spot where I had seen the lights and looked up. NOTHING was there I MEAN NOTHING! I was standing directly below where I had seen the lights and nothing was around me.no poles.
no lights.nothing. I proceeded to tell my girlfriend what I had seen and she blew it off as some sort of stress related hallucination.
However, a couple of nights later we were in her driveway and I was giving her a hug. I had my back to the "SITE AREA" and she was facing it. Suddenly she says, "Did it look like that!?".
I turned quickly, but just as the last time it was gone. Before I could turn my head. She reacted the same way I did.
She was frozen and couldn't speak. She walked over to the same spot as I did and looked up in awe. She said, "I saw it.
" "I saw what you told me about the o! ther day and just when I asked you about it, it disappeared as if someone had flipped the light switch.".What did we see?? Was it listening to us?? Was it trying to monitor our behavior?? For years I have been telling people about what I had seen.
To this day, noone has been able to explain it. This is the first time I have gone public with this. I am extremely credible and didn't believe in UFO's until that night.
I was a Tampa Police Officer for 2 years and Tampa Police Dispatcher for 4 years. In fact I was a Police Dispatcher at the time of my sighting. My girlfriend and I are no longer together, but she was a Deputy Sheriff and is currently a detective for a local security company.
Has anyone else ever heard of this type of UFO? Can anyone ease my conscience?.
Florida UFO Sightings From 1988 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 | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Unknown | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Circle | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1988 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 | 7 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
October | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1988 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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Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 21.43% of all reports |
Thursday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1988 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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06/01/88 | 6 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
10/28/88 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
07/15/88 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
02/25/88 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
12/01/88 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1988 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 | 6 reported sightings | 42.86% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 28.57% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 2 reported sightings | 14.29% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1988
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 1988
City | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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Miami | 2 UFO Reports | Miami UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Venice Beach | 1 UFO Reports | Venice Beach UFO Sightings in 1988 |
North Lauderdale | 1 UFO Reports | North Lauderdale UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Brandon | 1 UFO Reports | Brandon UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Fort Lauderdale | 1 UFO Reports | Fort Lauderdale UFO Sightings in 1988 |
North East Orlando | 1 UFO Reports | North East Orlando UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Live Oak | 1 UFO Reports | Live Oak UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Tamarac | 1 UFO Reports | Tamarac UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Jacksonville | 1 UFO Reports | Jacksonville UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Cape Canaveral | 1 UFO Reports | Cape Canaveral UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Saint Augustine | 1 UFO Reports | Saint Augustine UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Pensacola | 1 UFO Reports | Pensacola UFO Sightings in 1988 |
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.