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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 264 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2007 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (64 reports, 24.24% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (35 reports, 13.26% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (53 reports, 20.08% of total).
- 12/10/07 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 3.41% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (112 reports, 42.42% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2007
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2007, 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:
I spotted a white light with a wavy tail that vanished midsight as I was watching it. Object seen between 10:45-11:10 PM on New Year's Eve 2007(12/31/07) In the C- Section of Palm Coast Flagler County Florida USA. (This information included in the main body for further clarification.
) Object glowing seen out of the corner of my eye as I looked behind me to make sure there was no one stalking me. (I had heard there were drunkards out that night.) I then turned around and looked directly at it.
I lasted over five seconds after that . it was roughly half to three-quarters the size of the full moon in size and glowed white and had a wavy tail almost like a shooting star except it was fluid and almost like it were made of a fluid light. The object dimmed and then vanished after traveling across the sky and was facing diagonally downward-right from my perspective.
There was no obstruction in the way that could have blocked it to make it vanish a the point in the sky it did. May not be an aircraft at all.may be paranormal in nature though this is not provable.
It made no sound as it was moving through the sky but was most certainly low altitude due to it's relative size and clarity in comparison to an airplane that was passing at the time. It was not low enough to make a glow on the landscape below it. No sound of a crash was heard and from it's general size if it had crashed into the ground something should have been heard.
It did not look like any form of aircraft or living thing that exists to my knowledge.It was not really a fireball so much as it was a hito-dama shaped light. I was not tired, emotional, under any great amount of stress and have never had any form of drug or any sort of hallucination.
When I saw it I got excited because I had just seen something really strange. I was surprised but not at all fearful. To my knowledge no one else witnessed this object.
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It was crazy and at first I didnt know it was real but it was!! Me and three friends were at like a forestry area playing man hunt when a big disk like object goes by in the air. It wasnt an airplane because as soon as it got right above us three lights lit the ground up. It wasnt no helicopter or anything it was very quite.
The only lights were the ones shining down on us. like usually a plane would have those flashing lights this didnt.
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circular ufo hits a plane!!!!!!!!! We were laying on the beach and we thought we saw a shooting star and then we saw a plane coming by. the 'shooting star' turned around and headed straight for the plane! they crossed eachother i don't know if it hit but it blinked and then went somewhere. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Naked eye watching early morning sky finds Mars planetary movement vs.an unidentifiable object hovering like a helicopter Not sure if we are seeing Mars and effects of Earth's rotation, but very noticably bright flashlight type object with "hovering" movement resembling pendulum like left, up and right, almost helicopter like. Object appeared at distance of 4 index fingers measured from ocean surface to air, and at last viewing over 2 hours had moved to position of 12 index fingers from ocean surface to air.
now, at 6:15 appearing more as "bright morning star" or planet Mars.movement not as pronounced now as it was at first sighting. During this two hour period also witnessed two falling stars, satellites and planes with distinctive qualities from this bright object.
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On December 25, 2007, at around 7:00PM, I spotted something flying across the sky. I was waiting in the driveway for some friends of mine to show up. While I was waiting, I was observing this bright star ( I think it was the planet Mars that I was seeing) and some of the other stars that was shinning that night.
I noticed the moon was just beginning to rise on the horizon. The moon was mostly hidden by some oak trees, but I could still see the moon’s light shinning through the trees. Then I noticed a blinking red light moving in the sky near the upper left of the moon.
The red light would stay on for about 1 second and then off for 1 second as the object traveled North in direction. I watched it for about a minute, then I ran inside to get my Mom who I was visiting Christmas day. We both hurried back outside, and I was able to quickly locate the object again.
She had a little difficulty at first in locating the object, but finally she was able to locate the blinking red light in the sky. It might have been a plane flying, but I thought a plane also had a white strobe light that flashes brilliantly off and on, not a red light for a strobe light. Normally when I see a plane flying at night, I would see a white, strobe light flashing off and on, and red lights or green light that is continuously lit on.
The red light seem bigger in light effect than the red lights I normally see on the wing's tip of a plane. I didn’t hear any noise of any planes flying while observing the blinking red light; it was just really quite outside except for when a car occasionally drives by me on the road. Maybe it was a plane flying, and if it was a plane flying, it definably didn’t have the normal lights it suppose to have to indicate that it was a plane flying.
It almost seem like it was a satellite moving across the sky, but it would have been way too low, I think, for it to be a satellite, especially blinking off and on a red light.
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Bright stationary light in sky in lighted, rectangular, grid shape. Moved to NW, vansihed, then flashed brightly and vanished again. We were on the pool deck in the rear of the house.
I noticed a bright light 60 degrees above the horizon to the northwest. Surrounding this light were several departing/arriving airliners all of which were trailing contrails. The light was unmoving and had no contrail.
I am a pilot, and estimate the altitude at 20k feet. After watching for 10 seconds, the light became brighter and changed shape to a grid, that I can only compare to a grid on a bingo card, and all lines of the grid were brightly illuminated in white light. Immediately after I mentioned the light to my friend and dad, it reverted back to a bright, single, white light.
They only saw the object as a bright light having missed the grid-shape. As we watched I mentioned that it was not moving. Suddenly, it began to slowly move to the NW.
We watched for about 10 seconds and it simply vanished. My Dad and my friend looked away and I continued watching. It had vanished for about 5 seconds when I saw it flash brightly one more time and finally vanish.
I watched for 10 more minutes yet saw nothing more. Strangely enough, a month and a half before, I was in Orlando on a Greyhound bus. We had just left the station headed to Tampa and were sitting at a traffic light.
It was dark, and I noticed a bright light above the bus about 30000'-40000'. It was stationary with a changing brightness, brighter than the star Sirius. It began moving south toward Miami, and rapidly diminished in brightness until it vanished.
It appeared very high in the sky, and appeared to move slowly south, but I could tell it was moving very quickly, but due to it's altitude it overall appeared as though it was moving slowly. Very hard to describe. I noticed that no one else on the bus were paying attention, and I didn't say anything to anyone.
These are the first two sightings in my life, and I watch all the time for such activity, and have always been skeptical.
Full Report Text:
high speed cloud shape changing direction Report from West Palm Beach , Florida. Sighting December 21,2007 17:20hrs. Cloud like object.
I am a 60 year old business owner in WPB,FL. I was a Sgt. in USMC Air Corp.
and know aircraft/atmospheric/astronomical events.I've seen aircraft on fire in the air, flare drops, rockets launch,blimps,meteors,comets, space debris ect.both day and night.
My wife and I were driving home heading due west when I saw at our 12 oclock what appeared to be a small ,flattened oval shape, bright cloud about 50 degrees above the western horizon ,the sky was otherwise totally cloudless and blue, visibility unlimited. My second assessment was an aircraft and contrail at high altitude, yet the shape just wasn't right.It was larger, brighter and more rounded at the front trailing to the rear but overall very short and unchanging in length or appearance.
We were about 3 miles due west of Palm Beach International and a 737 which was climbing out on take off was of equal size .Meaning the cloud/object size was visually equal to the wingspan of the low flying 737, perhaps 3 inchs at arms length. The object was moving S and after 5 minutes was at our 8 oclock and dropping to 20 degrees above the horizon as we drove due west.
I then watched the object move to the west of it trajectory as we were stopped at a long traffic light. I say move instead of turn because the object changed course to the west 20 degrees of view within 30 seconds but did not change shape, no curve to contrail,no change of aspect, just change of direction and location .It then dropped slowly below the horizon.
to the SW. I judged its westerly turn as its view was briefly obscured by several concrete light poles at the intersection . We were stopped , watching through the drivers side window, the object began traversing from our left to right.
First visible to the left of the poles then crossing behind and visable on their rightside. If it had not changed direction it would have simply settled below the horizon maintaining it movement to our left. Also the cloud appearance never changed, like a still photo of it moving accross the sky.
Very strange event.
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I am ex-USAF. This was no conventional craft, triangular, darted in all directions. First, this was not a significant sighting as sightings go, though it was my first, but I'm submitting because my report may help corroborate reports of others.
We first spotted the craft at 18:15 EST. It was dark here in Florida. I noted the time because as soon as my wife said we have a UFO we checked the time.
The craft appeared WSW of my home and at a very high angle, almost overhead. I would place the craft almost due west of Saint Petersburg proper. There was heavy periodic cloud cover with some moonlight.
The size of the craft to the naked eye appeared to be just larger than a star so it was very high. However, we had low power binoculars, and night scope. When viewed through these two aids it was clear it was a triangle and had lights.
There's no doubt this was a craft as it was clearly intelligently guided. It would dart to the right, left, back and forth at amazing speeds and do a strange wobbling motion in concentric circles.
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Green orb over lehigh My wife and I were on our way home wed. the 18th at about 12:30ish a.m.
when something caught my eye in the sky. I was about to tell my wife to look when she says do u see that? It started as a tiny green orb stationary in the night sky and proceeded to get bigger and brighter and grew in intensity. It took off like a rocket to the west with a super long super flurecent green trail behind the super flurecent green orb.
And as fast as it appeared it and it's trail disapeared. The night sky was clear that night with the moon being crecent and bright. This is the second time i've seen this.
The first time was about 20 years ago when i was a child on a vac trip to orlando going down S.R.31.
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5 discs along I-75 While driving from Tampa to Leesburg along interstate 75, somewhere in pasco county, my cousin and I witnessed 5 saucer like discs scattered along a section of the highway. None more than 75ft from the ground. One was directly in the road and we drove right under it and it didn't move nor did anything happen with us or the truck.
2nd craft was to our right in an open field just hovering the same as the first. A 3rd craft was on the oncoming traffic side of the highway moving away slowly while a 4th was coming towards us but on the opposite side of the highway. the 5th craft could barely be seen between the trees on the opposite side of the road.
All crafts were displaying thousands of multi-colored lights on their underside, flashing at different speeds and no pattern. They seemed to be searching for something. We witnessed them from about 3miles away until we drive under and kept going.
I couldn't stop, as my cousin wouldn't let me; behind us was another car and a semi truck a little further behind. The sighting was in an area where there was no houses or infrastructure only cleared land Manuel for cattle. So I don't know what the town was, but I'm sure we were going through pasco county.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Trianglar craft hovering in sky with light pattern changed. My husband and I were coming home from his company’s Christmas Party and we saw something odd in the sky. The lights looked like headlights of a semi truck, but in the sky hovering.
As we drove closer it moved fast across the street over a sod farm and stopped and hovered again. We pulled off of the side of the road and rolled the windows down to see if we could hear anything. We heard a “whoosh” type of sound.
It wasn’t too loud. I attempted to take a photograph, which of course didn’t turn out, but when my flash fired the lighting of the craft changed. That scared us and we left quickly.
Full Report Text:
It was shortly after 7 p.m. Saturday, Dec.
15, 2007, when I noticed a bright object in the sky. It was a bright light, not unlike a satellite but moving in a north to south direction; Brighter than any star. There were no other lights or colors associated with it.
It continued moving south in atypical movements characteristics of an airplane or helicopter. It didn’t move like an airplane and there was no noise. It was traveling fairly fast and suddenly slowed down and them took a short oblique move to the right and then to the left and the continued south.
Too fast and abrupt to be a helicopter or aircraft. It continued south for two or three seconds and then started to fade and disappear. Did not get a chance to observe it with binoculars.
Within seconds after the light faded away, an aircraft (identified by flashing red and blue lights and noise) appeared above the tree line due south and passed directly along the same path as the object but heading north. There was no bright white present as with the unidentified object. I was in a hurry to meet my wife and couldn’t stay around to check further.
I thought the aircraft I observed heading north may have seen the UFO and perhaps was pursuing it??? Analysis: It appeared the object saw the approaching aircraft and started to turn to avoid it but finally vanished to hide. Credentials: I served in the Air Force Civilian Observation Corps as an observer and worked at the local Filter Center for a two year period in Syracuse, NY. Visually sighting aircraft and identifying them to call in to the Filter Center "radar gaps.
" I’m very familiar with multiple aircraft at all altitudes. I served in the Air Force as a Radar/Radio technician. I spent 1 ½ years in Viet Nam as an Engineering Writer for the DoD.
Grad Degree: BS in Math and Science Worked in Aero Space programs for 20 years Engineering missiles (Polaris, Centaur, Minuteman, Pershing and Sam-Ds.) I’m also an Armature Astronomer use an 8-Inch reflecting telescope.
Full Report Text:
(shape: light). Saw bright balls of orange shooting across the sky, some criss-crossing each other; had tails like vapor trails 3-4 or more round objects which looked orange and left a trail. Were shooting across the sky - at some point were cris-crossing.
May be the same objects that were recently spotted in Texas; accounts sound the same as my experience. It may have lasted about 5 minutes or so.
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My Cousin,and my sister were on just entering lakeland when we saw greenish, blueish light fall into the sky and disspeared. When were looking all wierd we never saw nothing like that ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of incident is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Triangular vessel with 3 bubble-like shapes encompassed the bottom at each angle. No lights. No Sound.
Floating easily low in sky. It was triangular, small, and light gray in color and had 3 large bubble-like cupped shaped objects on the underside on the point of each angle. They somewhat resembled an upside down coffee cup and appeared to be white in color.
(like a smoky white glass lamp shade--) It wasn't very high in the sky and did not have on any lights. It wasn't making a sound. it flowed or floated smoothly out of sight but easily.
This happened on Beach Road 3 blks from Hwy 98. It was NOT a meteor or plane. I've seen plenty of both.
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Circular Blue Object Shoots into Black hole It was a circular bright blue object, it looked as though it was stationary then as I looked at it a second more it shot straight into the night sky and disapeared.It was as though it disappeared into a black hole or something. I saw one object.
it was not a plane, and it wasnt a shooting star. It was Flying lower than a regular plane, and higher than the tree tops over the North East side near the ocean.
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Strange lights overhead at dusk, possibly very quiet aircraft in close formation Dogs barked immediately prior and after. What at first appeared to be a large commercial aircraft flew towards me, apparently on approach to a nearby airport, but as it passed overheard I noted a lack of engine noise and that the "front landing" light was an usually large distance away from the wing lights. The aircraft made a very low rumbling noise apparent as it passed.
There were red and green strobes and white lights on the wings of the trailing aircraft, and the forward aircraft had a single white light that turned red as it traveled away. The rear aircraft lights alternated, I can remember which were strobing as it approach and which were as it departed, but they altered their strobe pattern as they passed overhead. The lights formed a triangular shape in the sky with the base approximately one 6th of the height.
As the lights traveled away, the front one drifted out of line with the rear, making it apparent that there were two aircraft in very close formation. Alternatively I could postulate a large cylindrically object with some sort of light tracking around the front of the exterior. Immediately after the aircraft had passed there, a light propeller driven aircraft traveled behind and perpendicular to the aircraft, immediately followed by two others much further but also perpendicular traveling in the same direction.
The aircraft in question traveled north to south while the probably unrelated three transited south of my location from west to east. AS for the observer, I was standing in my back yard and the night before had wished loudly that I could see a ufo. Have noted other unusual effects of my silent thoughts.
Dogs barked after the lights had passed. I'm not saying these weren't conventional aircraft, however if they were they were flying very close to together, fairly low and very very quiet. If a car had driven past at the time of the noise I never would have heard it.
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Comet like object with a crayon in the middle. I was talking with a couple of friends out in my front yard and I noticed what appeared to be a comet. I pointed it out to the other four witnesses that I thought it was a comet.
I went in to grab a pair of binoculars. Through the binoculars the center was shaped like a cylinder more like a crayon. Everyone agreed it looked like a comet but were not sure.
It was a clear night out and there was not any planes in the area. ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space. PD)).
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Fuel Dump Spooks Nation! Observed same comet-like phenomenon as the others previously posted here. Finally had a chance to search the web for possible launches which could account for this. URL: http://mt-milcom.
blogspot.com/2007/12/nrol-24-launch-dec-10-possible-sds.html Quote: The launch period is such that visual observers in parts of North America may be able to observe the Centaur's propellant dump soon after MECO2, as occurred with NROL-1.
((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space. PD)).
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A CYLINDER LIKE OBJECT WITH HAZY LIGHT SORROUNDING IT AND PROJECTING ON ONE END. A CYLINDER LIKE FORM WITH AN EXTENDED HAZY LIGHT ON EASTERN END SIDE MOSTLY, ALTHOUGH FUZY LIGHT ALL AROUND IT , MOVING NE AT A SATELITE LIKE SPEED, WITH SOME ERRATIC DEVIATIONS, MOVEMENT VERY SLOW FOR AN AIRCRAFT A LITTLE TOO FAST FOR SATELITE. ALTITUDE UNDETERMINABLE.
WE WATCHED IT FOR ABOUT 45 MIN. WHEN WFIRST SAW IT IT WAS AT APPROX. 75 DEGREES OVER THE HORIZON, WE LOST SIGHT OF IT A LITTLE AFTER IT PASSED OUR ZENITH.
THE BACKGROUNDS OF THE PERSONS OBSERVING IT WERE, TV CAMERAMAN, A NURSE ASSISTANT, AND A RETIRED MERCHANT MARINER DECK OFFICER. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space.
PD)).
Florida UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 64 reported sightings | 24.24% of all reports |
Triangle | 30 reported sightings | 11.36% of all reports |
Unknown | 25 reported sightings | 9.47% of all reports |
Disk | 23 reported sightings | 8.71% of all reports |
Circle | 21 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
Oval | 19 reported sightings | 7.20% of all reports |
Sphere | 15 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Other | 14 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
Fireball | 13 reported sightings | 4.92% of all reports |
Cylinder | 7 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Changing | 6 reported sightings | 2.27% of all reports |
Rectangle | 5 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
Formation | 4 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.76% of all reports |
Chevron | 1 reported sightings | 0.38% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2007 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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December | 35 reported sightings | 13.26% of all reports |
November | 31 reported sightings | 11.74% of all reports |
January | 26 reported sightings | 9.85% of all reports |
July | 25 reported sightings | 9.47% of all reports |
September | 24 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
March | 21 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
October | 20 reported sightings | 7.58% of all reports |
April | 19 reported sightings | 7.20% of all reports |
August | 17 reported sightings | 6.44% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 6.06% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
February | 15 reported sightings | 5.68% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2007 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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Saturday | 53 reported sightings | 20.08% of all reports |
Monday | 51 reported sightings | 19.32% of all reports |
Sunday | 40 reported sightings | 15.15% of all reports |
Tuesday | 36 reported sightings | 13.64% of all reports |
Wednesday | 35 reported sightings | 13.26% of all reports |
Friday | 25 reported sightings | 9.47% of all reports |
Thursday | 24 reported sightings | 9.09% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2007 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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12/10/07 | 9 reported sightings | 3.41% of all reports |
11/17/07 | 5 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
11/10/07 | 5 reported sightings | 1.89% of all reports |
12/15/07 | 4 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
01/01/07 | 4 reported sightings | 1.52% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2007 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 | 112 reported sightings | 42.42% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 51 reported sightings | 19.32% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 38 reported sightings | 14.39% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 23 reported sightings | 8.71% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 21 reported sightings | 7.95% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 19 reported sightings | 7.20% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2007
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2007
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.