Florida UFO Sightings in 2003

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Strange Object in Photograph, Southwest Florida My wife were planning to go to the beach on New Year's Eve to take some photos of sunset. We grabbed the digicam and walked out the door. We had an amazing view of sunset from outside of our apartment so we took a few pictures.

I have a habit of snapping between 2 and 5 pictures in a quick duration just in case one is blurred or one doesn't come out. When we downloaded the pictures I commented that something must have been on my lens, but looking at the pictures, I realized this object was only in one photo of the set (taken within 10 second duration). There are sunlit clouds around but the object is framed in clear blue sky.

There is a metallic reflection on a disk shaped object. You can zoom in on it and it becomes even clearer. I am a 30-something biologist and I know this isn't a bird.

it wouldn't have left the frame that quickly anyway, neither would an aircraft. I would be willing to forward the photos. I would like a second opinion on what this could be.

((name deleted)) ((NUFORC Note: We have reviewed three photos submitted by the witness. There is a tiny, dark object in the second photo, but we cannot identify it. It may be a bird, but that is pure conjecture on our part.

We do not know what the object is, and it is too small for us to be able to determine unambiguously what it is. PD)).

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It was a dark and clear sky, and i was on my usual U.F.O.

nightly watch when i saw a ovel mysterious object crusing over me. It had red lights on it( 7 ). as i reached down to get my video camra i got to see the last glimps of it turn to a firey color and shoot away at an amasing speed.

I have an enormious amount of evidence that U.F.O.

s exist, if any one is interested or has any info on this plz contact me @ ((e-address deleted)) tx.

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second (more recent) sighting of bright star like object moving at impossible speed This sighting I recently had happended in the exact same spot of the sky where I had my first sighting. Except this time the object looked a lot closer because it was a slighty bigger and brighter star like light. There was also a plane I could see in the same veiw when it happened this time.

And instead of manuvering, the object just flew straight down thousands of feet to the ground (past the treeline at least) at a rate of speed no jet or meteor could go. this looked to be more than 100 miles away so I wasnt so tempted to drive over to the possible landing area. But Im sure it was the same object I saw more than a year ago in the northeast sky.

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Object flaming towards earth; changes direction We witnessed a flying object with a flame following behind it in bright orange light acending away from the earth in an southern direction. The object then changed direction and the flame behind it dissipated. The object than increased in speed and then ascended to a obvisiosly lower altitude.

The speed increased the object then suddenly disapeared heading toward the earth. It was not a plane or anyther know flying object. ((NUFORC Note: We have altered the date above to 2003, which we believe is what the witness intended.

We believe our Online Report Form may be malfunctioning. PD)).

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Bright Orange light, moved towards us and then to the right on the same horizontal axis, then faded and finally disapered. At first we thought it was a helicopter, then an airplane. It was a bright Orange light, hard to look at as it blured a great deal.

Left a small trail behind it. Started off with a bright light, then moved to the right of the sky keeping on the same horizontal line, then slowly came to a stop, hovering over one point. Then started to fade until a slight dim, which it stayed at for about thirty seconds, then vanished.

Throughout the entire period, the object never made a single sound. I am just curious as to what exactly it is, because to be quite honest, it was the wierdest thing I have ever seen!.

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The cigarshaped object moved from overhead towards the southeast at an incredible speed! We were looking at vultures in the sky circling overhead in our backyard this afternoon and my friend noticed an object that was moving from north to southeast. We watched the object move slowly from almost overhead, then it turned at a 45% angle towards the east and increased to speeds much faster than any of the fighter jets that we have ever seen training near the Homestead Airforce Base. We watched it for approximately 30 seconds until it seemed like a small dot and disappeared into the horizon.

The speed was incredible and we guesstamated it to be 6-7,000 mph, and it appeared dark and almost cigar shaped at first, but the amazing part is there was no sound at all or any kind of sonic boom that the jets usually make that exceed the sound barrier! ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).

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Saw a triangular shaped object that sounded like a loud whale that was smaller then a blimp. It was a silver/gray color but not very shiny hovering over us. It began move up and down and there was no sound.

Then it started to move backwards and forwards with ease. the triangle was the larger then a jet but just smaller then a blimp. Just before it's dissappearance, it began making noises.

Very low bellowing noises, kind of like a whale. The noises became louder and louder while we covered our ears. It kept getting louder until it dissappeared.

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Unknown object in sky emitting or reflecting lights in area of EPCOT, Florida. Not noticed at scene. Only noticed upon viewing of photo on computer.

Photo was taken on a Sony DSC-P92 digital camera. I did make the flash go off to get the shot of Spaceship Earth, as I did not want the apeture to stay open too long, so it is a fairly quick exposure.

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A green ball of light in the south east sky moving in an arc like falling then dissapearing. This time the ball of light was in the south east sky, again moving in an arc shape and dissapearing suddenly. At first I thought it was a reflection of a green light from the traffic lights, but I was stopped and at a red light.

((NUFORC Note: Date is approximate. PD)).

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Stars flashing and moving Was out in the country taking the trash out for my Grandmother and I noticed a really bright star(brightest I've seen). It was in the west part of the sky at around 19:00. Thought it must have been a planet or something to be so big and bright.

It didn't move any. Then a few minutes later I saw a dim star directly above me that was moving. Nothing special but one constant light(like a star) moving across the sky from south to north.

Not a plane because it had no strobes. Looked like a star moving at about the speed a plane would move at except it looked to be at an extreme altitute. Then when I was leaving at 21:30 I looked and both of the earlier ones were gone.

I happened to look around again and saw something odd in the east part of the sky. Another big star except this one looked like it was rotating and the light was changing color. It did not move but it was flashing from white to blue to green and to red.

It looked like a star that was going super nova or something because of all the colors. I also noticed about 5 planes in the sky, 2 of which were heading directly at it. Then as I drove home I kept looking for it then when I got home it looked like it had moved farther east because it was smaller but still flashing.

Can't say any of it was a UFO for sure. Could of been something with the atmosphere or increased light pulution as I got to my house. Either way it was cool to watch and not something normal.

There were no sounds.

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Bright Blue/Greenish White flash in the Eastern sky falling to the SE While walking my dog after dark, I witnessed a bright flash falling toward the earth. The flash appeared in the Eastern sky, approximately 80 deg above the horizon. It was bright white with a blue/green component to it.

It appeared to be falling to the SE. I witnessed the flash umtil it dis-appeared behind a nearby tree top. At first I thought it was a meteorite, but then I realised that it was rather large/close and between me and the clouds.

The weather was windy and cool with partly to mostly cloudy skies. There was no sound that I could hear associated with the flash.

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Large (circular view with possible oval side)object with sophistacted lighting system hovered and moved over ocean (Gulf of Mexico) While on the 15th floor balcony of a condo where I was vacationing at Sandestin Golf an Beach Resort I noticed a particularly bright star and curiously took the video cam out to attempt to gain a better look at it by using the zoom in feature. I saw that it wasn't a star, but an unusual flying craft with extremely sophisticated light patterns, appearing circular in shape, although a slight side glimpse indicated it may have been obelisk from another angle. I proceeded to tape the object for approx a half hour, obtaining approx.

23 minutes of unusual footage, some very detailed. It was high over the ocean the entire time.

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Bright Light moving on a collision course with power lines While waiting for the traffic signal to turn green (our car was facing east on Lake Worth Road)at the intersection of Military trail; my girlfriend and I witnessed directly before us what appeared to be a very large extremely bright light. What we would describe as large headlamp that was approaching the power lines in a collision course. And from our vantage point, the power lines and light behind it appeared to be parralell to us.

As it continued to approach the wires the light got brighter. As the light seem to hit the wires the large flock of birds resting on them were spooked and flew off quickley, most of them in a northerly direction. The light became much brighter at that point (what could be called the point of impact).

At the time of impact the street lamps shut down for a second or two and the traffic light at our intersection did the same. The light disappeared after about a second as the birds flew away. We both experienced discomfort in our eyes similar to a camera flash.

As the light changed we proceeded directly through it and quickley realized that the power lines followed the turn in the road and were positioned on the northerly side of the road. We estimated the distance from where we were waiting at the light to the estimated point of impact (centered between two telephone poles) to be less than a quarter of a mile. We stoped at the shopping center nearby to retrieve our cell phone and called 911.

I suggested to the operator that FPL should be called to check the wires and described what we had witnessed. We did not see any planes or helicopters in the vincinity. ((NUFORC Note: We presume the witness intended a date in the year 2003, and we have changed the date above accordingly.

We believe the error arises from a glitch in our Online Report Form. PD)).

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Brilliant lightts with a haze On a walk with my dogs in a rural area of Lake county on a clear day with no clouds in sight I looked to the east and saw a cluster of ten lights of blue, red, green and white. the most brilliant lights I had ever seen. These lights were surrounded by a pink/red haze that seemed to emanate from the bottom and flow upward around the lights.

This object was no more than 30 feet off the ground and approximately 300 feet in front of me. It was thirty to forty feet wide and made no sound what so ever. It hovered or seemed to float for a few minutes until it fired off a smaller white light to the west/southwest not two feet above the pine trees to my immediate right.

At this point I started home across our pasture to get my husband to see what I saw. As I moved towards the house the object followed. By the time I got my husband to come and see the object, it was directly over the house and we both watched it ascend until it disappeared in the sky above us.

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On campus while walking to class I saw a light that was a kind of flourescent white orb that appeared very suddenly and was flying at a great speed in the western sky. It appeared as if it were descending and then the light blinked out. It all lasted only about 5 seconds.

It was VERY bright and was moving very quickly. It did not have a tail and was not blinking.

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Invisible Jet or I'm Blind. Southwest Miami, Fl. Nov.

17. About 4:45 Pm. Sun getting low in the west.

Bright clear sky. I live about 20 miles northwest of Homestead reserve Air base. I'm acustome to seeing & hearing military jets from there.

They have a distinct sound from a civilian jetliners. Working in the front yard I heard that military jet sound relatively close overhead as usual. Upon looking to see one of the beautiful F-16's or F-18's I was surprised to find I couldn't see anything.

The loud engine sound traversed from southeast of me(Homestead) to the northwest. I'm aware that higher flying craft can be somewhat ahead of the apparent location of the sound. I searched the sky for the entire time of the relatively slow, directly overhead passage.

I have excellent eye sight and have seen very high flying jetliners so high that the sound couldn't be heard, but this is just the opposite. This is the 3rd time I've experienced this in the last 6 months. Interested to know if anyone in this area has experienced this strange situation.

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Circular object flying overhead I was walking my dog, who always has her nose to the ground in her search for scents. My dog has never bothered to look at birds flying around her. I thought nothing of it when she looked up at the sky.

Then she proceeded to sniff the ground and, again stopped suddenly to look upwards. This time I also looked up. I saw a huge round object flying above the treetops.

It had lights on the outer edges that were going around. It was not solid but looked like a slide projection on the clouds. Except this projection travelled south over our roof and disappeared.

i went inside and told my wife. This time we left the dog inside and went outside. There it was again! The phenomenon was witneessed by another apartment resident doing her laundry.

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Very large V shape with lights, haze, silent,moving east extremely fast. I first saw a very large and long lasting Meteor or shooting star or something that caught my attention and I was still looking at the sky wondering if their was a meteor shower happening. Then I saw what at first I thought was some kind of "reflection" I thought it was a flock of birds flying and some kind of light was reflecting on to them making them visible to me in the night.

But I soon realized it was not birds, it was many glowing objects in the shape of a V. They were bluish-white and each one was about as bright as a "dim" star. The V was made up of about 5 of these glowing objects down each side of the V.

There was some kind of blur or mist around each light also. I could not determine if they were all fixed to one large object or if they were all seperate objects. They were all staying perfectly alligned as if they were connected.

I was facing north and they were moving from my left to right (South-East) There was no sound and it was moving very quickly. It moved much faster then any aircraft I've ever seen. I guess the whole thing lasted about 7 seconds.

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UFO streaks past hotel and unreported aerial search of beach and ocean is conducted by the navy (most likely) or coast gaurd We were staying at a hotel on Jacksonville Beach with a room facing the ocean. We were on the balcony and something flew very close to the hotel, about 20 to 30 yards from where we sat on the 8th floor. We could easily have thrown a rock and hit it if we werent stunned by seeing it.

It seemed oddly shaped like a rectangle but wobbly and it made the same noise a helicopter makes and it had a bright red glow coming from it which made the whole side of the hotel red. We didnt know what it was but an hour later we noticed lots of activity up the beach by naval station mayport, spotlights and the whole base lite up like a christmas tree. We then drove as close to mayport in neptune beach as possible and sat watching for hours all the activity out in the water.

There was several helicopters with search lights skimming over the water, there were at least 12 total helicopters, 7 were skimming over the water about about 2 to 3 miles out, they would pass each other and come back and there were at least 5 helicopters we could see up the beach and up in the sky above the beach. We left after a few hours because we thought MPs would come out from the dunes and arrest us but as we left the electric boxes on the poles were all buzzing very loudly, we have been to the beach here before and the electric boxes didnt buzz like that normally. We went back to the hotel and in the morning there were still 4 or 5 helicopters skimming the water and at least 2 we could see flying about the beach.

We checked the news and all the places online for any searches or rescues but nothing was reported.

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4 ights in a row wiggling like a centerpede I saw 4 lights,I think square-ish,traveling very fast in a centerpede like fashion.