Florida UFO Sightings in 2001

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this was a beautyful experience I saw two disk shaped crafts. It was beautiful. I was talking with my someone on a cb radio outside my house.

When I here this strang sound on the cb it almost sounded like a language of some sort. And all of a sudden it got silent. Just then I heard a noise above so I looked up and there they were two disk shape crafts at first I was frighten but after 30 seconds I wasn't.

but after about five minutes they were gone.

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A round orange lite. The night befor my birthday I was out with my friend, I was looking at the stars and saw an orange lite in the corner of my eye, I looked over and saw it go strait across above the trees. I turned to show my friend and looked back over, it was still moving,it was faster than an airplain but slower than a shooting star, About a minut later it disappeared, like the lights turned off and never saw it again.

((NUFORC Note: We presume the witness implies a date in 2001, but we are not certain. We have amended the date here. One of two reports by same witness.

We are surprised that the witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate, given that it allegedly occurred the day before his birthday. PD)).

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Craft Unknown While driving on interstate I-75 north bound at approximatly 6:05 pm between exit #33 and exit #34 an object appeared in the north eastearn part of the sky. It looked to be approximatly 500 to 1500 feet up in the sky, and approximatly 1 mile from our current position. At first glance it appeared to be a plane heading in our direction which would be to the southwest.

Almost immediatly it was determined by myself and the driver of the car that it was not an ordinary aircraft. At first there were two lights in the front of the craft positioned when an ordinary commercial airliner would have its headlights. The two lights were at least 10-15 feet in diameter and were blinking on and off one at a time.

(one off and then one on again). On the top of the craft were a number of small, bright blinking lights maybe 5 or 6. These lights were similar to what you would see on the top of a tower antenna.

(a very bright strobe affect). There did not appear to be any determinable shape or angles to the craft. There was no shape of a wing or tail found on either a plane or helicopter.

As we got closer we saw that there was another large bright white light turning on and off in a pettern with the first two lights that were seen. As we approached the craft it appeared to be completely stationary just to the side of the interstate. I then stuck my head out the window and observed the same bright lights that wre in the front and side of the craftin what now appeared to be the rear of the craft.

We were now going approximatly 60 mph and as soon as I brought my head into the car to get a better view from the rear window it had completely disappeared from the sky. We scoured the sky for maybe two more minutes to find any sign of the craft, which had appeared to have disappeared. It was still very light out at that time of day and the craft appeared to be black or grey in color.

There was a group of about five cars driving in the group with us and all of the people in the other cars had appeared to acknowledge the craft and ha! d baffel ed looks on their faces. Myself and the driver of the vehicle could not think of any type of craft that we knew of that this may have been. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this witness, and we found him to be quite lucid and credible PD)).

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We saw a bright oval object with rings in the night sky slowly moving, with no sound. My wife was sitting on our patio speaking to my daughter on the phone. She called me to say there was a really strange light moving behind a tree line on the St.

John's River.When I came out I saw a bright object moving south above the river.I knew it was not an airplane because there was no sound.

When the object cleared the tree line we nearly freaked out. It was a bright, round object with rings around it.I grabbed my binoculars and was amazed at what I saw.

The object inside the rings seemed perfectly round and had a silver grey color. There were bright flashes of light on the surface.It looked like Saturn.

It moved very slowly down the river and at times seemed to hover over the water.After awhile it drifted behind the clouds and we never saw it again.This was definitely not of this world.

I have always felt that there must be other intelligent life now I am convinced of it.

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i saw what i thought was a orange glowing haze or mist , so i ran and grabbed my binoculars, the object seemed to be close as i saw red, green, and blue flashing lights on it, it seemed tall in size, as i looked through my binoculars, i could see a distinct kinda half circle shape as viewed from the side, as this orange glow or fog encompassed the object i saw, it was moving, very slow across my line of sight, the distince saucer shape i could only distinguish as a dark line, the flashing lights were on both top and bottom, it viewed with the naked eye was only an orange glow with flashing lights, by the time i went and got my family (who also saw it) it was below the tree line. (i live on a lake) i know an airplanes light patterns, as well as helicopters, and even blimps, this was just an orange glow. my family thought it was a plane or something on fire, but it mooved just to slow for that.

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As I was looking up at the night sky, I saw flashing red, green, and either blue or white lights on a stationary object that would occasionally dart quickly in a zig-zag motion. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star report, we believe. PD)).

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A BRIGHT LIGHT THAT APPEARED FOR ABOUT 15 SECONDS THEN DISAPPEARED SILENTLY. I was in the hot tub when I saw a object that look like a airplane then it disappeared. It had bright lights and then it disappeared in very high clouds.

The craft was silent, no airplane noise.

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Aircraft with lights spotted over I-10 exit on Capital Circle NW in Tallahassee. We were on our way home from the store tonight when we saw something that looked like a plane. It had a row of lights on the front similar to that of an airplane, but as we got closer we realized it was not moving.

When we got closer we saw that it was not attached to anything and was hovering, about a hundred yards up. It was dark so we couldn't see the shape, but from behind I could see three large orangish colored lights in the shape of a triangle in the back. By the time we turned around to go back, not more than 20 seconds, it was gone.

It was fairly open in the area so if it was anywhere near where we saw it it would have been visible.

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NEED SOME HELP PLEASE I HAVE DETAIL VIDEO OF U.F.O AND LOCAL NEWS LOOKING INTO IT FOR ME,IF YOU KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO CAN HELP ME,PLEASE LET ME KNOW THANK YOU.

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My husband and I were in the backyard. It was approx. 7:10 p.

m. A space craft of some kind was moving SLOWLY northeast. Because of it's size (it looked huge)and slow speed I said what the heck is that?.

I used the ladder to reach the roof of the house. Whatever it was moved so slowly and was saucer shaped. Looked gray in color.

My husband saw 2 "legs" coming out of it. That I did not see. It had a blue light on top and red on either side.

It was no airplane. This is my first UFO sighting!.

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Very slow moving disk shaped craft heading towards lighthouse I was in car at around 6:30PM driving away from lighthouse. Disk shaped craft flying just above trees about 75-100 feet away. Craft was traveling just fast enough to keep up with the car going about 35mph.

Had a red light on each side and a blue light on top. Was about 25 feet tall and about 15 feet high.

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Cloud colored chevron. Standing outside looking to the east. Noticed an object moving from the north.

Looked like a sharp-angled bommerang. No lights but cloud colored. Object was moving about 30 degrees off the horizon.

Moved south for about 60 seconds. Saw same object about a weeks ago in the same area of the sky.

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I witnessed a slient chevron shaped craft with 10 large white lights simutaneously going on and off near Tallahassee 11/20-01. I am a 41 year old registered nurse who saw what I considered to be a UFO on 11/20/01 at 0405. I discussed it in detail will my father who urged me to report it.

He gave me this web site to do so. Why did I wait to report it? I had a friend's husband who is a retired airforce pilot say that many sightings are reported in this particular area where an airforce base is and fly secret aircrafts that may look unusual to a civilian and I took his word for it. But after looking this web site up, I saw another individual report a sighting on the same night in the same area and knew I had to submit my story.

I live in Jacksonville Beach and was on a trip to Pensacola to a company to give flu vaccines. I left the beach at approximatley 2am. I was traveling west on Interstate 10 in my car.

At 0405 I noticed a low flying aircraft flying toward me, traveling east. It was visible through the left of my windshield and left side window. I thought it might be a radar plane at first but soon realized it was shaped like a stealth/chevron.

I wouldn't say it was larger than an average aircraft. It had 10 large white circular lights on the bottom of the craft slowly going on simutaneously and then going off to where I could not see it.The lights were triangulary placed.

One at the point, then two, then three, then four. When the lights came on it was very clear. It was shaped like a boomerang with a jagged edge, like the stealth.

There were NO other colored lights (Green/red)as would be expected in normal aircrafts. To compare it to a full moon size, I would say it was at least one and a half times the size of the moon. It made no noise, which scared me because I just went to a sea and air show with the Blue Angels here at the Beach a few weeks ago and witnessed many different looking jets and aircraft that were pretty deafening.

It seemed to travel very quickly for a craft flying that low. (Difficult to say how low, a guess.2-3 miles) I slowed down to watch it go by, but it was gone in about 30! seconds , the lights went out and never saw them turn back on.

I knew it wasn't anything I had ever seen and thought it may be a UFO. I quickly noted the time, the exit I was closest to, a tractor trailer a quarter mile in front of me was the only other vehicle around, and I noticed him driving erraticaly as if he was trying to see it go by as well. Im sure he saw it too.

I even wrote down his licence tag number to see if I could contact him later if I needed to, but I misplaced my notepad. Im still looking for it. If you're out there reading this, please write in!!.

As requested I will make a sketch of it and mail it in for you to see.Thanks for listening. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke with this individual at length over the telephone, and she was most convincing.

Please see other reports for this date. PD)).

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At 02:55 I saw a glowing orange object (approximately chevron shaped) which moved rapidly across the sky from west to east. I am a sane, sober 51-year old professional who has always been skeptical of UFO sightings. However, last night I saw something which I cannot explain.

As I was walking my dog at 2:55 a.m. (this is not my custom, but I had fallen asleep on the sofa earlier), I looked up to the sky to see if I might get lucky and see a straggling meteor from the Leonid showers of November 18th.

The night was clear and calm, without a cloud in the sky. A beautiful, starry autumn night in Florida. Suddenly, I noticed a glowing pale orange "shape" rapidly moving across the sky from west to east, very faint so as to be barely discernable.

I couldn't see an actual body per se (such as an aircraft), just the unbroken shape of orange light which seemed almost translucent, as if I could still see the stars through the shape. The shape was somewhat like a boomerang or chevron, except the leading edge was straight across (as opposed to "V" shaped on this front edge). It was perfectly symmetrical across its width.

I have difficulty determining the true size or speed, because I couldn't judge the altitude. However, I observed it across a radius of approximately 100-120 degrees and it covered this distance in approximately 5-7 seconds. This seemed to be an unbelievable rate of speed.

The object made no sound at all, moving with absolute silence which defied my mind's ability to comprehend. The moon was not visible but if it were, I would judge the width of the object to be about 5 or 6 times a full moon's diameter. The length of the object from front to rear was perhaps 1X a full moon's diameter.

It bothers me that I will probably never know any answers to this event. I only know what I saw and am 100% convinced that the object was not a natural phenomenon such as a meteor or a cloud. ((NUFORC Note: We spoke at length with this witness, and we found him to be exceptionally credible.

We suspect this was a very interesting sighting, very similar to others that have been reported to NUFORC recently of objects very similar in description. PD)).

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Almost midnight I was out with my friend. I looked up over the trees and saw a big round orange lite slower than a sooting star but faster than an air plain. I turned to show my friend and it disapired.

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this thing was round, metalic,fast and had no lights. let me begin with " I DONT BELIEVE IN U.F.

O'S " but, while i was sitting on top of the roof of my building, watching the meteor shower on 11/18/01. A round ,metalic object appeared, flying west, toward the ocean. The "thing" did not make any noise and it did not have any lights, it flew faster than anything i ever saw ( and NO, it was not a meteor, i've been star gazing a long time ) and just as it flew out over the ocean it made a very sharp right.

It only lasted a few seconds, and then it was gone.I dont know who to tell, but i'm hoping that someone out there was watching the meteor shower and saw the same thing.

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twin orbs cross the entire sky at high altitude in a matter fo seconds (not meterorites) Early Sunday mornning, I go out to see the leonid meteor shower, and I see several meteors at a time. Some crossing each other. The sky is dark.

There are no clouds. We have few streelights in my neighborhood, and watching these showers has been a hobby of mine since I was in the Naval weather service. I know what satellites look like.

I know what weather balloons look like. I know what jets look like. I spend a lot of time star gazing.

I know altitudes from my weather days estimating cloud height. With all that in mind, I see from north to south at a REALLY high altitude (These are at the level of cirrus clouds, maybe higher) these two faintly glowing orbs side by side cross the sky at incredible speed (no port or starboard lights, just a faint orangy glow, totally different looking from meterorites). I can see them cross from when they enter my view at the peak of my roof to near the horizon in a matter of about five seconds.

My eyes are totally accustomed to the dark. I have never seen anything like these before. I would love to know if anyone else saw them.

Everyone keeps trying to tell me they were meteorites, and I know they weren't. They kept a steady speed, remained in a side by side formation and were a different color than the meteorites.

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Two saucer shaped faintly glowing objects side by side silently going north over Ft. Lauderdale on 11/18/01 at 4:22 I was sitting on the roof deck of my house watching the Leonid Meteorite Shower. It was 4:22.

I remember because I thought I was seeing two pelicans flying just to the south of me and looked at the clock to see what time it was. I had never seen pelicans at 4:00 in the morning and 8 miles inland. I could not take my eyes off them and as they came closer I noticed a faint bluish glow to them.

We live in the path of airplanes coming and going from Ft. Lauderdale Airport. These were not on any of those paths, but were flying at what seemed to be about the same altitude of a plane coming in for a landing.

They were coming from the South and headed northeast after they went passed over me. They were silent, not moving at a tremendously fast rate of speed, it was more like two friends just out cruising the sky together. But, the part I will never forget was when they got just north east of my view, just before they went out of my sight, the one on the right sort of scooped underneath the other one and back out as if they were playing, or saying, "We see you too.

Bye, now." It was the most awsome thing. I will never forget it.

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Lightless,soundless sphere glides over tampa, 1:30 Sunday morning, Nov 18. I had crossed Henderson Blvd. about 1 mile south of Kennedy, I looked up into the eastern sky to see if I could find any meteors, the news reported they could be seen in the E-NE that night.

A sphere was about 300-500 ft. up, it was glidding parallel to Henderson Blvd., it looked about the size of a beach ball, no lights, no sound, people across the street in in Walgrens parking lot did not seem to notice it.

I was in Army Aviation 8 years and have not seen anything like it. I could make out its shape from the light that was reflecting off it, surface from the city below, it could of been very dimmly illuminated,but I don't think so, it glidded SSE and seemed to ascend as it went out of veiw, it moved the same speed the whole time watched, it took 30 seconds to move about 35-45 degrees toward the SSE. I have never seen anything like this ((NUFORC Note: Witness is anonymous, but we believe he is the same person who called our Hotline.

We found him to be quite credible, and a very good witness. PD)).

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I saw a quarter-sized, reddish-orange ball moving upward in the sky. I was sitting in my chair, on the dock, watching my fishing pole, which was casted in the river, when I glanced up to look at the sky. It is a pretty night tonight.

I saw something glowing red-orange, approximately the size of a quarter in the sky right above a tree moving in a vertical upright motion. I ran in the house to tell my friends, and when they came out with me the remnants were a glowy orange sky in the direction of the quarter-sized glow that I had seen previously.