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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 222 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2010 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (48 reports, 21.62% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (24 reports, 10.81% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (45 reports, 20.27% of total).
- 01/01/10 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (5 reports, 2.25% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (120 reports, 54.05% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2010
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2010, 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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Once again it happened.At the same time,the same heading. This time only I could see three of them,instead of more than that the first time I saw them.
They traveled from south east to north west. Bright orange color, like it was later reported in this same web site the last time.I wonder if they could be Chinese Lamps? It happened the first time December 31st,2010 around 11.
45 PM.We live in South Folrida.West of Miami,sightings were closer to my house.
Witnessed by my wife,my daughter and I.And it happened again December 31st,2011.around 11.
45PM. This time lights were further away from my house. Witdessed by me and my wife.
I read in this site that same lights were seen from Orlando to Washington state in 2010.Wonder about this year were else would be seen!.
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2 orange balls traveling over Jacksonville Florida I saw 2 orange circles traveling from South to North. I live southeast of Jacksonville by 10 miles, and their path was west of me by approximately 1-2 miles. They travelled approximately 10 miles from south to north during my observation.
They were not at exactly the same altitude but were fairly close. They had no blinking lights and made no sound. They looked almost like you would expect after-burners to look on a jet fighter, but there was no sound at all.
The size of the light was too big to come from an airplane, and the speed at which they traveled was too fast for a helicopter. I’m not sure what these were, but they looked very similar to those I found on youtube videos when I searched for “Orange UFO”. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Flashing egg shape on its side with 1/4 lit up resebling a cockpit flashing white light gliding straight 300 feet then hovers in one spot and then goes straight up disappearing in a tiny point of lite resembling a star in the sky. The craft glided made no noise at all. I'm 60 years old, white, Married, College educated, retired female.
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5 lights above me at about 9:30 p.m I was outside around 9:30 pm when i noticed 5 lighted circles the color was red/orange and moving at a slow speed. I called 2 other witnesses to show them the 5 lights, a few seconds later the lights dissapeared.
the 5 lights traveled about 400 feet. the height must've been 5,000 to 10,000 feet and the lights moved all together as if they where fixed.
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Some kind of sonic boom followed by rumble. Below is the exact description I sent in an email to george noory of coast to coast am the evening after the incident which took place just after midnight on christmas night. I decided to finally report this after hearing of so many other incidents that sounded almost exactly like mine which occurred more and more in the months and years after my experience and came to believe it may be related to the UFO phenomenon.
On Christmas night I was sweeping my sons floor and I hear a huge explosion which scared me at first but I immediately assumed it was a large firework from someone messing around and continued sweeping but then immediately realized it was still making an after sound like when you hear the rumble of thunder after a big lightning strike. It was loud enough to set off a bunch of car alarms and rattle my windows. When I thought it was thunder I promptly ran outside thinking it might start pouring rain and I had to cover my motorcycle.
So I ran out there looked up and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. It was one of the clearest nights you could ever find in south Florida. It couldn't have been a lightning strike with a clear sky.
I know it wasn't fireworks because I know exactly what those sound like up close. My only other thought was a sonic boom which I have heard before but there were no jets or jet sounds, I didn't even see any regular planes in the sky just stars and I looked very carefully. My neighbors heard it to but no one had any idea what it was.
Just thought my story should be out there and wondering how many other people may have heard this boom.
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Object, Yellowish orange appeard at cloud level 5000 feet hoverd and moved about. Looking west from Delray beach house.
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I witness a strange object showed up first as circular but when it moved the shape changed to, I had spent an hour or more observing the moon that day which was out and full which was nice and I kept thinking about the what is and if these thing exist why not show themselves today. Upon its appearance I tried in vain to get my wife to look but her vision is poor she told me i spent too much time looking so my eyes are playing tricks on me but I still cant shake the feeling that I did see something that day. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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67 red orange lights seen moving west to east one triangle all ojects dissappeared going strait up red orange disk shaped objects move slowly no sound. first one was a triangle followed every few seconds by groups of single lights . a commercial pilot estimated the speed at about 700 mph witness watched for about one hour ,,67 objects moving from west to east ,,stopping over the ocean turning white in color the moving strait up,,,.
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3 orbs of light seen circling over Longwood FL skies 3 orbs of light were circling the night sky. Each orb was making a circle and they would meet in the middle then circle out again. This pattern of movement was contained in a small area above our property.
It started in front of our barn then moved south to our driveway area. The movement of lights were below the cloud cover and could be seen best against the clouds. An airplane passed over during this time and it was higher than the orbs of light.
I watched for about 10 minutes until 1 orb disappeared, then the other 2 vanished. They were there then they were gone. There was no sound associated with the movement.
I got the distinct feeling that they were searching for something.
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Strange lights over the gulf near Hudson Beach, Florida Last night I observed a colorful light moving in a small area about 200-300 feet above sea level. The movement was erratic and it first I thought it was an airboat spinning around and moving over the shallow flats, but there was no sound and as it moved it became obvious that it was above the water.several hundred feet.
The object was approximately 1 mile offshore. The lights were red, green and blue with a spotlight pointed straight down. There was a haze around the object.
making it blurry to the naked eye. The object was visible for almost thirty minutes then simply vanished.almost like someone turned off the lights.
I tried to video the object but my camera did not register the light.it was a black screen. I walk my dog almost every night around 3am and we just moved into this new house.
Trust me when I tell you that I will be looking every night for this object again!.
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10 bright red, round light balls drifting through the sky, no sound I was walking back to my house walking my dog, right outside my house, something caught my eye, I looked up and there were approx 10 round, red balls gliding through the air, all following each other. They seemed to be as high up as a high helicopter, they did not make a sound, as they went over and past me, their light slowly went out and disappeared. They were not moving fast but rather slowly.
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Bradenton,FL 3 reddish dots in the eastern sky This event happened earlier this morning and please let me convey that I have a degree in aviaton tecnology, and I am an ameteur astonomer so I hope it lends some credibility to this statement. I exited my house at about 0230 on december 12,2010 looking east, and I saw three reddish/orange dots in the eastern sky. The position of these dots would form the corners of a triangle with the two corners on the bottom.
I proceeded to start yelling for anyone that could help verify, but no one responded at this time. While yelling the bottom right dot started to move toward the upper right dot while the left dot remainded stationary. The two dots them came close together then the whole formation seemed to head east, and that is when I finally ran inside and summonded my friend Brent who came to see the end of the first event pluse the second event also.
Brent and I together witnessed the lights disappear in the east in the formation specified.this ends the first event. Following the first event, Brent and I discussed the options and possibilites of what we has just witnessed for a little while before he decided to retire inside while I still watched the early morning sky.
After about 30 minutes lights once again graced the eastern sky.i summoned Brent and he summoned Kathey who would be the third witness to tonights events. The second event consisted of about seven objects in the eastern sky positioned side by side each other, slightly above the horizen with 2 of the objects on the right being very close to each other.
I believe this was object number 3and4 from the right. Once again the objects seemed to slowly disappear in the eastern sky after several minutes. This was witnessed by myself, brent, and kathy.
I am finishing this statement now at 04:24aM on 12/12/2010. I just came back from checking aagin with no sign of the objects in question. Venus has risen in the eastern sky, but from where I spotted the objects they would have been to the left/north of venus.
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Orange lights traveling Eastward from the Everglades over Northwest Broward County (10:55 pm) on December 11, 2010 in Northwestern Broward County (South Florida). My boyfriend and I were doing laundry at the local laundry mat. We parked in the back of the building which is on a main road that runs west and east from the Everglades to the Atlantic Ocean.
This location is about 10 blocks from the Everglades which is right on the other side of the Sawgrass Expressway (literally). My boyfriend went inside to check on the clothes in the dryers and I stayed in the passenger seat of our car. I was watching videos on my phone when I got a weird urge to look out at the sky so looked out the passenger window.
I was shocked to see what appeared to be the big dipper constellation because stars are hard to see in our city due to all the light pollution. What caught my attention was that more of these "stars" began to appear. I then realized I was looking at a cluster of orange orbs moving rapidly from west to east and immediately got out of the car.
I ! yelled for my boyfriend to come outside NOW! And I'll be darned if as soon as I did they began to disappear. By the time my boyfriend was able to get outside only 3-5 were left. They made no sound.
This entire event took place in the span of about 20 seconds. I am very disappointed that I did not have a chance to grab any videos or pictures. I have lived in Broward County my whole life and never saw anything like this before.
As a resident here I am very familiar with how airplanes appear at a low altitude since I work right next to an executive airport and Fort Lauderdale International is right off of I95. Anyone who has driven on I95 enough times could tell you about seeing the Que planes form before landing and experiencing having a Boeing fly 50 ft above your car as they drop the gears for a touchdown. An airplane has red white and green or blue lights.
These were NOT planes. I was a logical optimist; a "the universe is too vast for us to flat out say we are alone" type of person. I am undoubtedly a believer now.
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V-shaped formation of red lights hovering in the night sky. We were outside getting ready to grill and we saw approximately eight red lights in a v-shaped formation hovering in the sky. The lights were equally spaced apart and there was no sound or movement.
One by one, each light faded until they were all gone.
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Red ball travels straight down and turns to green glow. I was driving North on US 1 just north of Ft Pierce, Fl. A red ball came straight down fairly high in the night sky.
It then made a green glow and trraveled parallel to ground and disappeared. It could have been a small meteorite but it was odd when it turned green.
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UFO sighting in I75N- Florida (Alligator Alley) I work as a professional model, and i recently booked a job for a swimwear catalog. This was very last minute, and on Friday, December 10, 2010, I was told i would be driving to Placida, FL, with one of the other models from my agency, who was also booked for this job. We were told we had to head out that same night because the shoot was o the 11th at 7 AM.
Therefore, we decided to head out around 9 pm. After heading out from Miami, and being on the road for about an hour and half or two, we had a UFO sighting. I was driving on I75 North (alligator alley), it was very dark and we were the only car on the road during that time.
There was nothing around us, and the sky was absolutely clear. All of the sudden the other model, which is sitting on the passenger seat, asks, “What is that?”, pointing to something that was heading towards us. I immediately answered without even paying much attention to it, “Oh it must be an airplane”, and she said “No, that is NOT an airplane”.
So we starred at it as if it was flying towards us. We were going 70 MPH, and this all happened in a matter of seconds. This object flew right above our car and it was about 200 to 300 feet high.
It was absolutely shocking, and unexplainable. It flew so close to our car that we were able to see the object very clearly. We can describe it as a capital letter I , and it had four bright LED white/blue lights.
These lights were circular, and really bright, and they were in each corner of the I . As we are starting as it, it passes us, and I (driver) decided to pull over and figure out exactly what it was. As I pull over and look back it had vanished.
No where to be seen. No lights, no object, nothing! It literally took me less than a second to pull over. We both looked around us and there was nothing in the sky.
It was so dark that we would have been able to see anything, even from really far away. We had mixed emotions, we had no idea what we had just seen, we were laughing for the next hour non stop, but it was mainly beca! use of h ow nervous we were. As we saw that the object disappeared, we decided to start driving again.
We’ve done some reading online, and saw stories of people who have had the same experience just like us on the same road. Some moments i just think to myself, “did that really happen?”. It just seemed so unreal.
But it DID happen. I wasn’t by myself, nor was the only one who saw it. We both saw the exact same thing.
I do believe in UFO’s but the other girl had never believed in that. But after this experience, I can definitely say, we saw something out of this world. Specially because this “ship”/UFO made NO noise at all.
If it would have been anything human, like an airplane or helicopter it would have made lots of noise, specially because of how close it was.
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Multi colored orbs with contrail.changed form and color often. My 5 year old and I were driving in the Target parking lot on US19 in Clearwater.
We have noticed lots of different kind of military aircraft and unmarked choppers flying around and a few months back I saw another UFO so I have had my camera attached to me ever since. I drive with my camera on my lap now, always ready to go. I looked up to the sky and noticed a thick cloud of smoke in the sky, looked just like contrail but there was nothing in front of it.
You could not make out anything. my daughter and I kept watching it and I started to take photos with my 300mm lens attached to my Nikon D3000, great lens! I kept taking photos on multi shot as these two orbs started forming in front of the smoke trail. They would fly away from one another and closer, they would become one, then split into two.
It wasn't until i got home and uploaded the photos that I could see what they were really doing. Some of the photos (out of the 70 I took) show this rainbow like ! object where the two orbs were. It changed colors, shape and size and then it just disappeared.
There were other aircraft in the sky but all you could see was contrail. Towards the end of the photo set you can see it just fade away and it was back to that original smoke trail I saw. This is not the first time I have seen this in the past few months, lots of strange happenings lately but this was the first time I could capture it on camera.
Finally I have proof and not just my word to go off of.
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Space station or Space craft? So tonight I went out to smoke as usual and I always look at the stars since I was a kid, tonight when I looked up I seen a light with a tiny red tail. I rushed in to get my mother and she seen it went back inside, then I went back out to see if it was falling. I noticed it started to go back and forth side to side but it looked like only inch's where I was seeing it from.
After that I seen it kinda light up and the red tail turned a green and there was what looked like a > math sign, greater than. It turned from green to red, I only have one contact in but I watched with one eye. so I ran to get my sister and she saw it, went back in and I goggled it.
Said something about over breavard county Florida the space station could be seen but there was no date. So I am wondering is it the space station a UFO, God? I believe its still out there, its south south east, dropping below the tree lines, but it is still bright, soooo did I see one?.
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At about 4 am a object was seen in the sky on lake weire. It changed many different shapes and sizes. I have take several pictures and video taps that are very clear indeed.
This went on for three house untill day light, where I also have pics in the blue sky with the object. I watched until you could not see it no longer. It was very bright in color.
There was plains also in the sky which made it very clear that it was not a plain. It stayed in the same area for hours. When it started to become day light it moved slowly above me, still bright insight.
It was in the south east direction.
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Rectangular Gowing Object I noticed what I at first thought was a “sky writing” type of plane in the South Western Sky of rural West Palm Beach, Florida. I am located in Loxahatchee. It was coming straight down, with a short trail.
It was silent. I started to think it was a plane about to crash. But, then it came to a dead stop, and the trail vanished.
It was white but had a glow. It stayed in that position for approximately 5 minutes. Then started to glide to the South.
It was a rectangular shape, but then seemed to be narrower at the ends. It continued to glide south until it disappeared.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 48 reported sightings | 21.62% of all reports |
Circle | 24 reported sightings | 10.81% of all reports |
Other | 19 reported sightings | 8.56% of all reports |
Fireball | 19 reported sightings | 8.56% of all reports |
Unknown | 18 reported sightings | 8.11% of all reports |
Sphere | 17 reported sightings | 7.66% of all reports |
Triangle | 17 reported sightings | 7.66% of all reports |
Oval | 10 reported sightings | 4.50% of all reports |
Changing | 8 reported sightings | 3.60% of all reports |
Disk | 8 reported sightings | 3.60% of all reports |
Rectangle | 5 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Formation | 5 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
Teardrop | 4 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 1.35% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.45% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2010 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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October | 24 reported sightings | 10.81% of all reports |
December | 24 reported sightings | 10.81% of all reports |
September | 23 reported sightings | 10.36% of all reports |
July | 22 reported sightings | 9.91% of all reports |
January | 19 reported sightings | 8.56% of all reports |
June | 18 reported sightings | 8.11% of all reports |
August | 18 reported sightings | 8.11% of all reports |
March | 18 reported sightings | 8.11% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 7.66% of all reports |
February | 16 reported sightings | 7.21% of all reports |
November | 14 reported sightings | 6.31% of all reports |
April | 9 reported sightings | 4.05% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 45 reported sightings | 20.27% of all reports |
Friday | 38 reported sightings | 17.12% of all reports |
Sunday | 33 reported sightings | 14.86% of all reports |
Monday | 29 reported sightings | 13.06% of all reports |
Tuesday | 29 reported sightings | 13.06% of all reports |
Wednesday | 25 reported sightings | 11.26% of all reports |
Thursday | 23 reported sightings | 10.36% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2010 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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01/01/10 | 5 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
07/04/10 | 5 reported sightings | 2.25% of all reports |
09/09/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
02/28/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
09/21/10 | 4 reported sightings | 1.80% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2010 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 | 120 reported sightings | 54.05% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 29 reported sightings | 13.06% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 29 reported sightings | 13.06% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 7.66% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 16 reported sightings | 7.21% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 11 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2010
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2010
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.