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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 339 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2011 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (62 reports, 18.29% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (58 reports, 17.11% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (90 reports, 26.55% of total).
- 01/01/11 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 2.65% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (175 reports, 51.62% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2011
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2011, 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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Right before the firework display started at the beach we (my kids and I) were looking up in the sky from the peer at the stars and we saw a orange-red ball moving slowly across the sky. Suddenly, it stopped. Then the fireworks started at the beach, we looked back to see what the ball was doing and it took off away so fast and then dissappeard.
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15 disc shaped, silent, slow moving , orange lighted craft slowly changing formation was seen by 10 witnesses 12/31/2011 11:45pm At approxmetly 23:45 on New Years Eve I was out side looking at the sky, becouse it was a beautiful clear eavning,when i saw at tree top level a bright orange light. I thought it was a plane comming at a weird angle , I live about 5 miles from airport, and i noticed that the light was to bright for a plane.It was higher than the trees but at that time it looked about tree top level.
I say about a thousand feet it turned out to be. No sound. As it passed over the tree I noticed another orange light then another until i could see about 10.
They all were in a 2 by 2 one on top of each other seperated by maybe 200ft in formation. I ran to get the others inside home and all saw. At that time more just kept on coming by until they were 15.
They seperated and changened formation . They all ended up in a line. Must have been going 5 miles an hour.
They were moving slow. They never spead up. They just kept moving forward until we could not see them becouse of trees.
! I took about 7 pictures and was able to zoom up on some. If you want to see them get my email. They look disc shape when zoomed up surounded by lights.
3 adults age 40,46,49, seven teenagers sophmores and juniors in high school witnessed. 40 year old(x-ray tech) 46 year old(jeweler) 49 year old (thearapist).
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Orange-Red spherical oblong shaped craft flying in formation above DUI checkpoint shortly before New Year's eve. UFO report New Years 2011-2012 About an hour or so before midnight on new year’s eve 2011-2012, I walked from the parking lot of a bar near the intersection of Clark Road and South Lockwood Ridge road, because I was having social anxiety too much to be comfortable at a small concert. My driver was refusing to drive me home, so I began to walk South on Nelson Avenue.
About fifteen minutes to midnight, I was walking East on Queens street and was almost at the intersection of Queens street and Tree Line Court, walking on foot, when I heard yelling from my west. I immediately saw what looked like orange red glowing orbs floating from north to south in the air above where I was walking from. The glowing orange red craft were flying in linear formation, appeared to be like loose embers from a fire caught in a draught of the wind.
Later on I found out that they would have been flying directly above a local police operation, a DUI checkpoint, and it seemed that they were openly trying to communicate with the police by flying directly above them and signaling in a very similar way to how the police cars were using their light array to flag down civilians who were suspected of drinking alcohol and driving or were driving faster than was the speed limit of that street, which is 45 mph. I estimate that these craft were about the size of a mid size house flying from north to south directly above US 41 Tamaimi trail, and that I observed them from their east from where I mentioned above. I had a camera with me in my pocket so I began to take pictures, which I will send with the report.
Again, to be concise, Orange-Red spherical orb shaped craft flying in formation directly above a congested area parallel to a police DUI checkpoint on New Year’s eve 2011-2012.
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Orange Lights - 13 in formation over Lake Wellington At approximately 11:30 pm on New Year's Eve night, my husband and I were sitting in our back yard, on the dock facing West, overlooking Lake Wellington. Suddenly over the horizen in the western sky, appreared a bright orange light, followed by another and another. We counted 13 in all, flying in formation toward the north.
All 13 lights were evenly spaced, same size, same color following each other. We watched until they disapeared from view. There was no noise, it was very silent out.
I tried to capture it on my video cell phone, but when I checked out the video, you can't see the orange lights. You can see the moon and the reflection of the moon on the water, and the lights from the houses across the lake, but where we saw the orange lights, the sky looks pitch black. The video didn't capture the lights.
We didn't call anyone, we were just dumbfounded. I'll try to send a drawing of what it looked liked and a picture of our back yard to get an ide! a.
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Bright Orange Flame like Orbs in the sky over Port Saint Lucie Florida We were setting off fire works when we noticed these round orange Orbs moving slowly and silently across the sky. We kept an eye on them and they would slowly disappear going straight up into the sky abouve us very quickly. They would reappear coming from different directions one at a time about ten minuets apart.
This went on for about an hour. I got it on video and they looked like bright silent fireballs. We also saw them on Christmas eve about the same time at night.
Don't know what they are but are pretty strange. Can some one find out for the public what they are it looks like they are being sighted all over the world.
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Bright Orange Sphere wobbling while Bright White Led Looking Light remains constant nearby. At 1115pm there was a Fireball at about my seven o'clock looking north. At my nine'oclock there is still and ongoing a bright white led looking light hovering.
It's not a star since the stars are twinkling and they stand out as stars. This craft seems to be moving or wobbling from right to left. Several fireballs seem to be within 25 or 50 miles of the constant light.
Since its new years eve and there a5re constant fireworks going on You can see clearly it isn't part of the show. Very eerie, like a helicopter many miles above our home with no sound.
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Around 3 groups of 4 light pale lights, just like small stars, doing some formation and disappearing in a dark sky A friend was talking about how many more stars he would be able to see in Colorado, and we were all just looking at the sky, and suddenly some movement got our attention. Those tiny faded stars start moving in a formation with no sound. About 3 groups of 4 'stars'.
Sometimes each group they would be in line, sometimes form a triangle and suddenly they all moved like bees in a hive. There was no tail, like meteor shower, and they were very pale light blue, just like small stars. I'm a skeptical person, and I was trying to compare to balloons, but it was dark and no wind, and these things were flying really fast.
I don't know what this is, but I haven't seen anything like that.
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Three red dots in triangle formation Me and my boyfriend were outside our house watching the fireworks when we saw three red dots in the sky in a triangle formation. The dots kind of flickered from red to a white-ish color. Then after a few seconds two of them disappeared and the other one stayed present for a few more seconds then disappeared as well.
These lights weren’t blinking so we knew it wasn’t an aircraft, and it was very far away you could tell it was out in space.
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Red-Orange fireball passing over Orlando on Dec 30th 2011 On Dec. 30th 2011 at around 7pm in Orlando, FL. I spotted a bright round reddish-orange fireball around magnitude -15 about 1/3 the dia.
of the moon traveling north at about 2,000 ft and 200 mph. It stayed the same size, brightness and shape, the outer edges looked like it was flickering like a fire. I first thought it was a jet on fire and called my wife and daughter out to see it.
After watching it for a minute we reallized there was no sound, smoke or trail coming off of it. We got out two binoculars and could not see any more detail, we watched it for about four to five minutes heading north toward Sanford, slowly getting dimmer and finally disapearing into a cloudbank. We saw several Jets nearby making thier final approach into OIA Airport and could easly tell it looked quit a bit larger and was traveling opposite of the approach path.
We are avid astronomers and astrophotographers and we have never seen anything like this, we know what Iridium flares and such looks like. It was by far the best thing we have ever seen!.
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A light hovered in the sky two nights, moving back and forth. 12/38/11 a light in the sky stated to become brighter and brighter until it seem to be at least 5 times brighter than any star or planet. There were absolutely no stars in the sky at the time.
The craft hovered for around 15 minutes before the object became dimmer and took off into the east. The next night, the same light was in the sky, this time not as bright. The object made no noise whatsoever, and seemed as if it was moving back and forth.
The object stayed in the sky about 5 minutes before disappearing.
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Diamond-square shape hovering over I-75 in Florida, tips illuminating blue! I had been driving from Delray, Fl to Naples, Fl and about halfway into my trip (in central Florida in between Naples and Plantation) I noticed that the moon seemed to be in some form of a lunar eclipse- the sky was pitch black. This triggered my attention, and I seemed to be more aware of the sky since it was so dark and there were no lights on I75. About 15-20 minutes after I had noticed that the moon had completely disappeared I was driving and I saw a form maybe about 100-300 feet above the road going over my car.
It was large and in a diamond-square shape. The corners of the object were illuminating a light blue color, and there seemed to be some sort of digital pattern on the bottom lighting up a light blue as well, but this section was more faint and the lighting was sporadic in different areas of the object. There seemed to be a haze of blue around the object that seemed to be caused by a faint blue light lining the circumference of the form.
It seemed to be traveling very low to the ground and was moving slow (in relation to a car going about 75 MPH.) It was moving in the opposite direction of me, going East.
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Multi Colored /Shape Shifting Bright lighted UFO sighting on 12/26/11 in Brooksville , FL At approximately 1:00 am on 12/26/11, I began to close my windows and saw an extremely bright lighted star like object in the SE sky outside my house. I decided to go outside to look at it more clearly and it was moving up and down, side to side and then disappeared and reappeared. It than began to change shapes and luminate several colors.
This object was in my view for over 15 minutes. I videotaped the object in the sky for approximately 2 to 3 minutes and have some still pictures. The video is posted on utube under ufo122611.
The video file is to large to submit by email , but we will forward the still photo shots.
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Definite ufo sighting, repeatable/observable. For the past week ufo's have been flying directly over my home. My friend and I thought they were stars at first, but then theyv started moving erratically.
They move in one direction then back and the opposite direction and sometimes make a spiraling motion on the horizontal axis. They are there when night falls and they are there all night long. Two nights ago I, my friend and his mother were observing the ufo's when I noticed a light blink on on the horizon.
Upon closer inspection we saw that it was a small clam-shell shaped silver craft that we assumed to be an unmanned drone of some type. These craft have the ability to maintain a spatial position within the atmosphere (hover) they can move front to back, side to side, in zig-zags, in short they appear to have total and complete control over spatial movement within our atmosphere. We do not have the resources ourselves to properly investigate this phenomenon but we would love to know what these craft are and encourage others to observe the night sky for stars that appear to be wiggling or moving in short straight lines and document everything you can.
In the meantime we will seek HD cameras and telescopes to investigate this phenomenon and we will share what we find.
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Bright Orange Orbs flying silent over Port St Lucie Florida Christmas night My wife and I and the neighbors witnessed on Christmas night at around 11:30 - 3 Orange Orb like objects moving in a type of formation 2 together side by side then a third behind them about 20 seconds. Then the rest of the neighbors saw 5 more fly over. They made no sound and were oval in shape.
They were so bright they almost looked like fireballs in the sky. I caught them on film and have the proof. A week later on New Year’s Eve my whole family was out lighting fireworks and they appeared again.
Again I caught them on video. No one can identify them. Haven’t seen them since.
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A la 9:15 salgo ala llarda de mi amigo amiral las estrella con su hija y mi amigo estoy localisando el lusero I me percato tres luces rojas en direcion norte y sin ruido en forma de triangulo.
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Very Large Triangle shaped object with multiple colored lights. I ran to get my wife and kid they saw the lights but did not see the size like I did when I first walked outside. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Wife and I saw 6 flare like objects take off from north and proceed west. It is now 8:45 PM, December 25th (Christmas Night) 2011. About 15 minutes ago, I went out with my wife, into our back yard in Delray Beach, Florida.
Our back yard has another residence about 60 - 75 feet north of where we were standing. I noticed what I thought was an aircraft to the north when two more bright red objects appeared over the roof of the residence to the north. I was in the USMC air-wing.
I grew up studying aircraft of all types. I know what they look like day, or night. They were red and white, but not blinking steadily.
They appeared more like a twinkling between red and white, only far brighter than any navigational lights I've ever seen. I would have said they were fireworks, but fireworks don't fly off at an upward angle like these did. I got my wife's attention, saying: "Look at that!", while pointing at the two new red objects.
They were gaining altitude and heading west at about a 25 degree angle from the horizontal. They another one appeared over the roof. And another, and still another.
There were six in all. They weren't in any formation unless it was so staggered it didn't look like a formation, but they all originated at approximately the same place and all were on a relatively similar, but not exact trajectory. After about 8 - 10 minutes they had disappeared one by one.
Neither my wife, Nor I have ever seen anything like these things, and I'm familiar enough with all types of aircraft to know aircraft when I see them. At air shows I can point at a B-17, tell that it's a G model, recall that there were just over 12,000 made and it has four Wright 16-20 1200HP engines and a crew of 10. At one air show, a group of old timers were looking up asking what the aircraft were that were flying over at about 10,000 ft.
I looked up and told them they were OV-10s. I've met those that know more about aircraft than I do, but not too often. ((NUFORC Note: Witness is former USMC.
PD)).
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Bright orange triangle shaped lights over Bradenton, Florida Three triangle shaped bright orange lights moving quickly from southwest to southeast. All three moved to the same point in the sky and then just disappeared.
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LARGE BRIGHT ORANGE OBJECT MOVING FROM THE EAST, OVERHEAD AND DISAPPEARING TO THE WEST AT ABOUT 45 DEGREES. WAS BELOW AN EST 10,000 FT CLOUD LAYER AND TRAVELING AT APPROX 300KTS. SILENT AM RETIRED CORPORATE PILOT, 69 YEARS OLD, 16,000 FLIGHT HOURS, 40 YEARS INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL EXPERIENCE.
THIS WAS VERY UNUSUAL.
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Orange fireball/light seen on christmas eve Boynton Beach Florida The object was cloud level and very bright orange. It was moving south at about as fast as a normal airplane. It looked like it was an aircraft on fire.
We eventually lost it behind the clouds.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 62 reported sightings | 18.29% of all reports |
Circle | 37 reported sightings | 10.91% of all reports |
Triangle | 36 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
Fireball | 35 reported sightings | 10.32% of all reports |
Other | 27 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
Unknown | 25 reported sightings | 7.37% of all reports |
Sphere | 22 reported sightings | 6.49% of all reports |
Oval | 16 reported sightings | 4.72% of all reports |
Formation | 12 reported sightings | 3.54% of all reports |
Disk | 11 reported sightings | 3.24% of all reports |
Diamond | 10 reported sightings | 2.95% of all reports |
Changing | 10 reported sightings | 2.95% of all reports |
Rectangle | 8 reported sightings | 2.36% of all reports |
Cigar | 7 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Flash | 5 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Teardrop | 4 reported sightings | 1.18% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 1.18% of all reports |
Chevron | 2 reported sightings | 0.59% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.29% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 58 reported sightings | 17.11% of all reports |
July | 46 reported sightings | 13.57% of all reports |
October | 33 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
November | 31 reported sightings | 9.14% of all reports |
August | 27 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
January | 27 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
September | 27 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
April | 23 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
March | 22 reported sightings | 6.49% of all reports |
February | 19 reported sightings | 5.60% of all reports |
May | 16 reported sightings | 4.72% of all reports |
June | 10 reported sightings | 2.95% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 90 reported sightings | 26.55% of all reports |
Friday | 69 reported sightings | 20.35% of all reports |
Thursday | 50 reported sightings | 14.75% of all reports |
Sunday | 49 reported sightings | 14.45% of all reports |
Monday | 36 reported sightings | 10.62% of all reports |
Wednesday | 26 reported sightings | 7.67% of all reports |
Tuesday | 19 reported sightings | 5.60% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2011 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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01/01/11 | 9 reported sightings | 2.65% of all reports |
12/24/11 | 8 reported sightings | 2.36% of all reports |
11/03/11 | 8 reported sightings | 2.36% of all reports |
12/31/11 | 8 reported sightings | 2.36% of all reports |
12/25/11 | 7 reported sightings | 2.06% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2011 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 | 175 reported sightings | 51.62% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 51 reported sightings | 15.04% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 49 reported sightings | 14.45% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 27 reported sightings | 7.96% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 21 reported sightings | 6.19% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 16 reported sightings | 4.72% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2011
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2011
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.