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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 52 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 1995 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "triangle" (8 reports, 15.38% of total).
- August is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 15.38% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (9 reports, 17.31% of total).
- 08/12/95 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (4 reports, 7.69% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (26 reports, 50.00% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 1995
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 1995, 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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I was amazed at the lightbulb like glow and silence of the craft. Walking home from work, pizza place on college parkway in orlando.looked up at the sky cuz it was so stary out.
and wham.it was silent gliding and looked like a lit lightbulb just wisping above the treetop.very silent .
very bright My sister worked for a crisis hotline center and confirmed my sighting the very next evening as 2 pilots flying in the south-easterly direction spotted it also.I was validated. I didnt think she believed me .
but that next night she told me she saw the local news reporter telling it on local tv.just want to know if anybody wants to know what it looked like up close? It was litterally 50 feet over the trees above me… ((nickname deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: Date may be approximate. PD)).
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Man and four other people saw a "comet" streak from N to S in eastern sky. It was blue, trailed by an orange blue tail, which extinguished very close behind the object. It was reported as "fist size, about 1/4 diameter of moon.
" (sic). It was descending (?) at 60 deg. angle below the horizontal.
Caller insisted that the object certainly was not a "shooting star.".
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Nursery owner repts. peculiar ring of flattened grass on his property. Grass had been killed earlier w/ spray, but was matted down.
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Woman repts. bizarre "half circle" obj. in sky to SE.
Projects ray downward! Something appeared to "fall" from the main object.
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Woman & husband witness "extremely brilliant white light w/ pink & blue" in the E sky. Appeared to eject obj. Changed shape.
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Anon. rpt. of bizarre obj.
that "looked like the Shuttle" moving S to N across sky, 20 deg. in 20 sec. Visible exhaust plume.
Bright.
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FAA controller relays UFO sighting reported by "crew" of aircraft 15 miles SE of Lakeland FL. Vortac. Did not show on a/c radar.
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noticed light out of place on way home approached the object was elliptical in shape almost lika football i was apprxmtly 15 yards from craft.it was orange and yellow tranlucent in texture.ultra silent hovering about 15 feet off ground turned and shot horizontally 2miles off shore in a millisecond and stopped dead.
truly amazing technology i was driving home with a friend it was 315am not a cloud in the sky.i live near the beach and was traveling a road parralel to it.when inoticed alight out of place,as i got closer my view was obtructed by trees.
intrueged ipassed my usual turn to investigate.what i saw was a 15-20 ft. long elliptical or football shaped objest hovering or floating.
my freind and i in awe stepped out of the car for a better view.it wasnt a solid color it was the orange and yellow like the sun.it looked as if you could place your arm through it.
a swirling changing moving paint job.something ive never seen before or anything close hard to compare description.it was facing north south then turn45 degrees tilted and drifted15feet to the right stopped sat for moment.
then in the blink of an eye the most mind boggling display advanced technology i oor my friend have or will ever see . It shot about 2 miles horizontally in a millisecond and stop on a dime .and just sat there and looked like a star in the distant sky.
it traveled so fast ther was not even a blurr or trail and made not a sound.
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flying fireball streaked past my grandmothers house in the woods 20 feet off the ground moving near 65 mph. i was at my grandmothers house and i saw a a perfectly spherical object streak down the road about 20 feet off the ground. i read on the site, an instance that sounded similiar so i thought id tell yall about my sighting.
the way the lady said it happened is almost exactly like i saw it, and i live in the country as well. it was orange and looked like it was on fire. moving about 65 mph.
((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
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Summary : Triangualar shaped object hovering in place.VERY close to the road,and this was a busy highway with people in front and behind.At night.
Slow rotation. It was stelth black in shape of a triangle hovering extremly close to the highway to theleft of us.It was right above some trees and a street light turning slowly clockwise.
A red light was at each corner and a large white light was in the center.There were other lights smaller and scattered.It was definately an equalateral triangle.
For some reason when we were driving by I noticed it and pointed it out to the others and they saw it but would not admit it was unusual.I kept saying it was something not ever seen around here .Strangely everyone in the car began to refuse to look at it as if it were not there,but I knew it was,and started getting agitated with me and telling me to hush.
When I had first pointed it out to my friend he got really frightened or excited and tried with me to show the people in the front but then he got all quiet.When I asked why he had stoped he just told me it must be something else like a street light.I have perfect 20 20 vision and that thing was only as far away as a hundred feet.
Im also an artist and have a photographic memory,i know !i saw something.The people in the car with me seemed to be in denial the whole time.Now when I mention it to them they dont even remember what happened,they look at me like Im nuts.
I even triedto talk to them the next day after it happened and they had no idea or memory.I was 15 then and have no history of hallucinations.This DID happen.
P.S. I can give a vivid drawing but I dont know how to send it,would you contact me please?.
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well i was over a friends house i was 15 years old. i have a telescope and we were looking at the moon it was a clear night and fule moon. my friend went inside to get something to drink i was looking in the telescope and i seen a small white light going around the moon it took about 2 seconds to go around and when it came back around it stoped.
then it moved quickly right then left then shot out into space. with a bright white flash when it disapeared. i was like that would be cool if it was a alien space craft to myself.
when my friend came back out i told him about it he didn't believe me. so i was walking home after that and i looked up in the sky and seen a huge triangle ship just above the trees and it was moving so slow if it was an arrowplane it would have fallen out of the sky and it had no noise at all . it had red and green light on the bottom.
and from the lights being on i could see what it was made of the ship looked like it was made from an astroide it was all rocky and orange it had no flat serface at all just the sides of it that shaped it into a triangle. when i seen that i just stopped in the middle of the road and just looked at it until it was gone it scared me to death. but i wish i had a camera then also.
but later i was thinking if i did have a camera and took a pic maybe they would have thought i shot a weapon at them and they would have retaliated or something so in a way i am glad i didnt have one and in another way i am not. to this day i still think about it. i have never heard anyone give a description like this it is all circular saucers well mine wasn't mine was huge so huge infact i think it was the mother ship.
thanks for listening ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).
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green glowing disk with lizard like creatures. Craft : we saw a classic disk shaped craft was silver bare metal ( mill finish ), classic saucer shape 35 feet wide with a slight green glow surrounding it except for the very bottom a little ball on the bottom had a red glow surrounding it excactlly like corona from electrical emmisions from tesla coils. It moved to fast for us to see it move but we followed the red glow as it trailed like a small tail of ionized air behind and below the craft.
it moved 3 times and the second time it hovered over a cow and it was lifted in air to the crafts middle at which point we started jumping up and down in excitment to what we were seeing, we unwittinglly attacted the attention of the craft and 1 second later it was over us! the beam used on the cow was now on us! we could not look up at it as we were both paralysized physically in this beam but we could scream and we did. the light beam looked like white laser light. you could see particles of sort in light like thick light.
Inside Craft : then we both blacked out and i awoke in this craft my friend lying beside me, we were on 2 clear tables- 2 foot by 5 foot (no probes - lol) and were paralysed from the neck down. All white round room inside. It had drawers or square rectangles along every part of the walls and un uniform in appearence like a big one then 2 little ones ect.
looked like man made like molded plastic. there was a window all around 5 inches or so at the top ceiling was plain and white. I dont remember the floor.
we saw two , 4 foot lizzard like beings, big earthlike reptiles. Clothes : they were collar-less one piece (tight but not skin tight) jump suits. like silver foil clothes metalic and flexible with a diamond cross pattern like a sun sheild for a car or an emergency fire blanket.
it stopped at their mid arms just like our shirts and stopped at their upper thigh like shorts and no shit there was a hole for their tail which went through. no shoes, no jewlery the smoother pretty one had a clip board of sorts in his left hand about a half inch thick. Appearence : One was pretty green like a tree snake,smooth and thin.
the other one was rougher ,darker brown ,and bigger in muscle build. both were under 5 feet tall. i saw the eyes of the darker one , they were not slits for pupils as u would think but round like ours and sooo pretty.
like a yellow starfish pattern as iris surrounded by redish browns. They did not speak nor any telepathic crap but i could hear it breathe at times. they both had 3 ft tails not dragging.
heads like outdoor florida lizzards, pointed snout, tiny teeth , no visable hair. Images here: http://free.hostdepartment.
com/s/saurian/index.htm Conflict : they should some as 1 was agressive towards me when i awoke and tried to swing at it lol. It was to no avail it swept me with its tail knocking me down i then blacked out of memory till we were back on the ground and they were gone.
Emotion : I felt like a deer that was just ran down by a helicopter who was then immobilized and tagged then released. my first feeling seeing them was to take control and agreesive. i had no fear per say towards them.
my impression of them felt like they were smart animals not "aliens" ((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate. PD)).
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green glowing glow around silver disk with red ball on bottom Craft : we saw a classic disk shaped craft was silver bare metal ( mill finish ), classic saucer shape 35 feet wide with a slight green glow surrounding it except for the very bottom a little ball on the bottom had a red glow surrounding it excactlly like corona from electrical emmisions from tesla coils. It moved to fast for us to see it move but we followed the red glow as it trailed like a small tail of ionized air behind and below the craft. it moved 3 times and the second time it hovered over a cow ((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate.
PD)).
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Two men witness "large white disc, w/ slight yellow tinge, larger than full moon," move slowly across sky to S, turn. Halo around it.
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i believe it was during a night time shuttle launch. i walked out side to see it and i looked up and i and i saw this big triangle like ship and it was looked like it was comeing down like if it was landing, that's when i stepped under the porch, i couldn't hear any noise at all. then i stuck my head outside the porch and looked up and some kind of door opened up and this very bright blue light came out and before it hit me a ran inside and looked out the window and saw it fly away.
this is not the first sighting that i had but it was the first one for the triangle shap ufo. ((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).
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Metro Dade Police relay UFO report. (No follow-up call from observer.).
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Telephoned Report: Man repts. seeing "elliptical, solid object" descend through clouds. Was not plane, had no wings.
Obj. darted "all over the place.".
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Man witnesses peculiar, bright obj. streak horiz. from NW to SE.
Called FAA, no pilot reports. Obj. had "round, bright head.
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4 females camped out on pensacola beach. played in water all the next day and left beach right at sunset. got on interstate 10 going west, we thought.
at dark all of us noticed star sized objects moving erratically in sky. later a blue green glowing ball, not a "fireball", it seemed like a metallic glowing sphere, maybe a bit smaller than a basketball, sped across the interstate right in front of our windsheild. it was moving extremely fast, from left to right.
3 of us saw that. we then remember seeing what we thought was a brightly lit airport runway ending next to the interstate. we thought, well, its an airport.
this did not seem odd to us until later. we then realized we were going the wrong way on the interstate, east instead of west, which seemed very odd because going east out of pensacola you have to cross a very long bridge. we are familiar with the area and it seems we would have noticed immediately that we were going the wrong way.
it took a long time to get home to nashville. even considering that we had to take an alternate route it shouldn't have taken 15 hours to get from pensacola to nashville. also, i later remembered that when we saw the blue green ball i was in the back seat.
when we noticed we were going the wrong way, i was in the front seat. i don't remember stopping. i moved to pensacola about a year later and was there for the big boom.
also, sitting on the beach one day, in broad and bright daylight, 2 of us saw what looked like a gigantic roman candle zoom across the water in front of us and dissappear. ((NUFORC Note: Event date corrected on 14SE99 at request of witness. Correct date of event is 08/12/95, not 08/01/95, as previously indicated.
PD)).
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Proximal sighting of shape shifting, falling leaf UFO. On or about 03:30 in the morning of Saturday, August 12, 1995, I was witness to what can only be described as a genuine UFO sighting on I-75 Noth bound, just south of Sarasota, Florida. I say to have witnessed a UFO, not claiming it was extra terrestrial in nature, but, a flying craft that was unidentifiable.
I am former miilitary, and I will not describe the nature of my military experience other than to state that I am very familiar with most if not all known aircraft, whether civilian or military to make any identification of such vehicles with a certain degree of accuracy and confidence. What I saw on this occasion, is entirely foreign to my experience and remains so nearly 20 years later. On the afrementioned morning, I was driving a 1992 Ford Taurus, a vehicle kept in excellent mechanical condition, traveling on North bound I 75, on my way from Hollywood, FL, to Tampa, FL.
As I began to approach a very well lit section of the interstate, some 10-12 miles South of Sarasota, Florida, I caught sight of what I first took to be a rotary wing aircraft in distress. At this point, the interstate is divided by only a 40 yard or less median, and the craft was above the emergency lane on the opposite side, or on the South bound side of I75. The craft appeared as a helicopter experiencing tail rotor failure of some sort, as it was descending in a seemingly uncontrolled fashion, pitching side to side and coming down like a falling leaf.
It dropped from about 500 ft to about 150 to 100 ft above ground in this fashion when it suddenly stopped, right above a tall highway light, to shine a bright beam of yellowish white light onto an empty, older model sedan, that was parked on the southbound emergency lane of I 75. This craft was approximately 30 to 35 ft. In length, an approx.
10 - 15 ft in height, and 10 ft + in breadth, it had no windows, no wings of any type known, and overall this craft seemed to change shape and color, with an almost fluid manner. As I approached this scene with! my vehicle, I lowered my driver's side window to get a better look, as got immediately parallel to it, being less than 120 ft. distant from its location.
As I passed it, outside of the normal rush of air noise, the other vehicle made absolutely no sound, it was noiselessly hovering, frozen in place. The surface if this craft seemed to have a multi faceted airframe, and was oblong shaped. The facets on the surface seemed to change planar configuration , as the edges converged with one another to constantly change its outer shape without changing its dimensions.
The craft emitted what seemed to be intermittently dull and brighter levels of light intensity in colors that were in the off white, yellow, dull orange and almost beige range. The craft did not appear to have any visible signs of doors, hatches, windows or ports of any sort. As I was experiencing all this with my head half out the driver's window, I suddenly became aware that my car's engine had shut off, and I began ! to struggle against the loss of power steering.
The craft remained motionless, still shining a beam of light on the parked vehicle. I immediately turned my attention to my car, shifted the transmission to neutral and turned the key on the ignition, my vehicle started up again instantly. I turned to look at the craft again, it was still there, however, within a second or so, it turned off its beam of light , and began to slowly ascend in a perfectly linear and vertical attitude, some 50 - 70 ft, when it suddenly, just vanished.
I did not see it fly off in any direction, I just saw it disappear, there was no more light or movement, just empty air. Weather conditions on this date was slight to medium, low cloud cover with the expected high humidity for that time of year, approx. 72 F.
All this took place in a time span of less than 30 - 45 seconds, and although I did lower my speed to about 40 MPH +/-, the actual experience seemed to have taken more than a minute. Once the craft disappeared, it did not reappear again, and I have not seen anything like it since.
Florida UFO Sightings From 1995 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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Triangle | 8 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Circle | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Sphere | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Changing | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1995 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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August | 8 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
March | 7 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
June | 6 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
January | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
September | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
April | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
November | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
May | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1995 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 | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Monday | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Saturday | 9 reported sightings | 17.31% of all reports |
Thursday | 8 reported sightings | 15.38% of all reports |
Tuesday | 7 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
Sunday | 6 reported sightings | 11.54% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1995 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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08/12/95 | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
10/17/95 | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
06/01/95 | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
03/15/95 | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
01/01/95 | 2 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 1995 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 | 26 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 14 reported sightings | 26.92% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 5 reported sightings | 9.62% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 7.69% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 3 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 1995
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 1995
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.