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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 648 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2014 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (131 reports, 20.22% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (74 reports, 11.42% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (149 reports, 22.99% of total).
- 07/04/14 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (20 reports, 3.09% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (355 reports, 54.78% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2014
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2014, 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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Orange light moves west, flickers, then takes off full speed out of sight. As some friends and I were watching New Years fireworks, we noticed a lingering orange light. My friend said it was a UFO that he has seen a few times before.
It slowly started moving west and after about thirty seconds of moving west, it flickered. It flickered 5 times before taking off full speed out of our sight. All of us were in shock and couldn't believe what we had just saw.
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Weird fire ball on the sky on Spring Hill, Florida. It was shaped like a fireball, it was dark red and orange. It was going from north to south, with no noise whatsoever.
I tried to take a picture but it wouldn't barely come up on my phone. Now the picture isn't even in my phone anymore, it disappeared. It's crazy because this is the second time I've seen this fireball looking shape in the sky on the month of December 2014.
We would like answer from other viewers of these events please!!.
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3 Reddish-orange lights in a triangle moving over New Tampa. While sitting in our driveway at the end of a cul-de-sac which backs up to a wooded area, we were roasting marshmallows at 9:30 p.m.
, when we noticed in the sky three reddish-orange lights in a triangular pattern moving very slowly across the sky. They seemed to appear suddenly out of nowhere. We watched the object move north to south and all 3 lights started to dim and the light at the front vertice of the triangle was the last one to go out.
It never returned.
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I saw 3 objects one was flaming red with 4-6 flames beneath the other 2 were just red lights I was heading south on a residential drive in westside jax fl to go to the store, looking forward driving I noticed a bright ball of red flame with 4-5 flames coming down from bottom of the flaming ball. Since this was New Year's Eve, I thought the object was some fireworks but had no sound. I slowed down to look at object ahead of me and I noticed the two other objects, a total of 3.
Being in communication technologies I thought it was a radio tower but realized there were no towers by the house in this direction. They were in a triangle formation. The object that was flaming was the top left (east) of triangle.
The other two, one was to the right (west) horizontal to the flaimng one. The third was below the other 2 and in a center position. As I turned left there were several couples with children walking , they were all looking and pointing at the objects.
As I ended the street I lost sight of the 3 objects due to trees and houses. I took a right turn an! d saw the flaming object still in the same place. The other 2 objects were gone.
People walking on Blanding blvd were also looking and pointing at the object too. I was not the only one who saw this. The flaming one stayed stationary till I reached the next light.
The object was still flaming, then it moved toward the east at a fast pace and was gone. It did not go away in a flash. This all occured just 1 air mile away from Naval Airstation Jacksonville (NAS JAX).
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Red glowing orb like on fire in a clear oval shell moving low and silent. Large low flying slow moving orb, clear bubble like on outside. With moving glowing red inner ord which looks like its on fire! Inner part was swirling and moving, while the clear outter shell remains steady in its movement.
Moving from nw to se. Silent and moving at a steady pace.
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Amber or orange orb like with a little flash sometimes along the way South to North direction for five to ten minutes then I went back indoors. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Circular objects with flashing red and white lights fluttering in the sky. Walking back home from walking dog, looked up at sky and saw one circle like object flashing red and white lights. It would flutter around in the northern sky.
I kept watching it and then another circle object came near it and then disappeared soon after the other disappeared .
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Orange fireball heading north from Sarasota. Saw a small orange or fiery ball going out or away, going higher leaving our air. if that makes sense? Not following a planes orbit but leaving ours.
It was bigger than stars in the sky by twice or three times,, Just checking. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Saw a total of 5 fire balls, 3 were in a horizontal line I was sitting on my deck looking at the ocean and I see a ball of fire slowly moving south above the coast. Then a minute later 3 more came in an almost perfect horizontal line. A few minutes after those went away, one more came.
Same size, same speed, going the same direction. This was at night.
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Bright ball of fire moving east over gulf of mexico. st pete beach. Its real.
I saw and recorded it. Staying at Grand Hotel on Gulf Blvd. Room faces Gulf.
Looked out window, bright ball of fire appeared, and began moving east at a concentrated level of speed. Stunned, I grabbed video cam on cell phone and caught it moving upward and east.It.
just vanished.Im visiting from Chicago.I wont be the same.
I know what I saw.
Full Report Text:
Orange glow - 'twinkling occasionally' 5 orange moving lights separated by same distance moving southwest crossing into west flight plan for planes landing at Fort Lauderdale. One light was near a plane preparing to land but the proximity of height was unknown as well as the height of the plane. The landing plane appeared to circle further out towards the south while landing east.
No noise emanating from the lights. Twinkling coming from light. Moving below clouds.
Observers were Nursing Home CEO and Psychotherapist.
Full Report Text:
WHO IS UP THERE? December 26, 2014, around 8:30pm. 2 witness myself included, looked up to sky was cloudy and kind of reddish in color almost like a winter sky right before it snows; flying from NE to SW first saw one triangular object and immediately behind it another, orange and white lights, very quiet and the lights were very bright especially at each point this lasted a little more than 2 minutes and then they just disappeared. I know what we saw and am glad someone else was with me.
((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information. PD)).
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Three bright orange objects in sky of east/southeast of Florida. I was out walking my dog and saw three orange objects in sky to east/southeast. The were stationary for a few minutes then one quickly shot up and was gone, after about 15 seconds the second one did the same.
The third object remained for about a minute and then was gone. I see helicopters and planes here all the time and these object were quiet and when they moved were beyond the speed of anything I have ever seen.
Full Report Text:
leaving aunt's house for Christmas dinner look up in the sky know it is 3 orange balls in a formation 4 For 2 minutes approx then all of a sudden one broke off and instantly disappear while the other two disappeared within 10 seconds in mid-air. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I was looking toward the east as I finished my cigarette and I saw a big group of like 9 to 12 glowing orbits in the sky moving west. As they moved they began to separate in groups of 3 forming into triangles after a couple of minutes they were gone.
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4-5 circle objects in sky. Looked in sky and I see a four or five perfect circles in South Fort Myers, FL by college parkway. They were moving around where Cessnas fly (plane) if not a little lower.
There were around 3 circles grouped together and one then another behind that one maybe a mile apart from where I was standing. I focused on the last one and there was a solid red light on the end of the circle. They were not solid white; however appeared to be a clear white color with the outlines seen.
There was an airplane taking flying in the sky with different lights and the objects were not phased by the plane. As I watched them, there was no sound what so ever. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
6-8 orange and red lights seen in a somewhat horizontal alignment. I would like to report what may, or may not, have been a UFO sighting. Some time between 9:15pm and 9:30pm, on December 19, 2014, I saw maybe 6 to 8 orange and red lights hovering in one place in the sky.
They were approximately over Dike Road and Tuskawilla Road in Winter Springs, Florida, but to be honest I could not tell exactly the location since I was driving. I live near an airport, and I saw some planes fly somewhat close to the lights and thought maybe they would have reported them as well. They were, as I said before, hovering in one place.
Their alignment was horizontal, but scattered, as in they did not make a straight line. I wanted to turn around and see them again, but when I went back they were all gone. I am not sure if this matters, but it got very cloudy after the event.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
The UFO were in a pattern, formed like a V shape at first. They were evenly spaced. It was very pretty to watch.
Red lights mixed with yellow were flashing on and off. They seemed stationary in the air for a while, one at a time disappeared. My first thought was that helicopters were flying in formation with flashing Christmas lights.
(Because it's Christmas time.) Then I realized one at a time was becoming invisible. So the helicopter theory went out the window.
A car drove up to us and asked us, are they UFO's. We said "I think so". They said yeah, they are UFO's.
Then one UFO remained visible and bright. Finally it disappeared too. Hardly anyone noticed except for the guys in the car that called out to us.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Unknown object over North Cape Coral/Punta Gorda. I wanted to share what my wife and I saw the other night. I googled UFO Punta Gorda/Cape Coral to see if there was a news report of a UFO that night, and came across this website.
Thursday night, my wife and I were in bed, and I got up to close our bedroom window for the night. We are used to seeing planes in the area since there is more than one airport in close proximity. What we saw that night occurred above the Yucca Pens Unit Wildlife Management Area from our best guess.
When I went to close the window, I noticed a red/blue/yellow light, and I at first assumed it was an extremely slow moving plane. After a few seconds I mentioned to my wife that there was plane or something with more lights then I have seen before. She took a look and didn’t mention the lights but said, “It’s not moving,” so I am there staring at it to see if it moves, then I don’t know to explain it but it moved abruptly then stopped again.
At that point it had our full attention. I asked my wife if she saw what I just witnessed and she confirmed that she had. It then stayed stationary long enough for my wife to lay back down.
I could not stop watching since I was curious to what I seeing. The next thing is literally like something out of a movie. The thing shot upwards (vertically), then it disappeared in the horizon.
I said to my wife that it shot up vertically then disappeared to the North. Then it shot back South to where I could see it and my wife and I watched it and were just both were asking each other if the other could see what was happening. We are not into this kind of stuff but jokingly I high fived her and said scratch that off my bucket list.
I have no idea what we saw but it is absolutely nothing like anything else I have ever experienced in my life. ((ADDENDUM FROM WITNESS)) The date was this past Thursday night, 12/18/14. We are both professionals that deal with the public and have not considered contacting the press.
I just came across this website trying to search if anyone reported something to the news. It's truly something that leaves you at a loss for words. I have only mentioned it to one close friend.
Thank you, ((name deleted)) ((END ADDENDUM)).
Full Report Text:
White Triangle in South Florida My co-workers and I work in the next own over. After our shift we were headed back to our homes, we car pool together, all 11 of us in company van. About 5 minutes before entering LaBelle, FL.
(the city we live in) while driving North on State Road 29, I was looking at the sky and almost as if out of nowhere a White Triangular craft manifested itself through the clouds in the East. I yelled to my co- workers "Ovni! OVNI!!!!!" ( Which is Spanish for UFO). Everyone immediately looked up and it almost seemed as if time, inside the van, slowed down immensely.
I felt as if the van was just smoothly floating down the road. A few seconds went by, (5-10 by my estimation) and after moving a few miles to the West, the craft disappeared into nothing. As if it just collapsed into itself and it was gone.
I've always heard of black triangular shaped crafts, but never a white one, which just added to the strangeness. This one had many of the same characteristics as its black counter parts. It was totally silent, it showed no exhaust system, and it seemed to defy the laws of aerodynamics gliding flawlessly through the air at a slow speed.
It's hard for me to be sure of it's exact size, since I have no reference points to do the trigonometry, but if I had to estimate it's size, I would say it is somewhere in between 35-40 ft in length, from the front tip to the back of the craft and 25-35 ft in maximum width from one of the back corners to the other. I realize this is much smaller than the black triangles that have been reported, which is also a bit strange. I don't know if the two have anything in common besides the obvious, I just hope more people see it.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 131 reported sightings | 20.22% of all reports |
Fireball | 102 reported sightings | 15.74% of all reports |
Circle | 96 reported sightings | 14.81% of all reports |
Unknown | 45 reported sightings | 6.94% of all reports |
Triangle | 43 reported sightings | 6.64% of all reports |
Other | 38 reported sightings | 5.86% of all reports |
Oval | 33 reported sightings | 5.09% of all reports |
Sphere | 32 reported sightings | 4.94% of all reports |
Disk | 29 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
Formation | 20 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
Flash | 13 reported sightings | 2.01% of all reports |
Cylinder | 10 reported sightings | 1.54% of all reports |
Rectangle | 8 reported sightings | 1.23% of all reports |
Changing | 8 reported sightings | 1.23% of all reports |
Egg | 6 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Teardrop | 6 reported sightings | 0.93% of all reports |
Chevron | 5 reported sightings | 0.77% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 0.62% of all reports |
Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.15% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.15% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2014 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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April | 74 reported sightings | 11.42% of all reports |
January | 73 reported sightings | 11.27% of all reports |
March | 68 reported sightings | 10.49% of all reports |
February | 56 reported sightings | 8.64% of all reports |
July | 54 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
August | 52 reported sightings | 8.02% of all reports |
June | 51 reported sightings | 7.87% of all reports |
October | 49 reported sightings | 7.56% of all reports |
November | 48 reported sightings | 7.41% of all reports |
May | 42 reported sightings | 6.48% of all reports |
September | 41 reported sightings | 6.33% of all reports |
December | 40 reported sightings | 6.17% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 149 reported sightings | 22.99% of all reports |
Friday | 98 reported sightings | 15.12% of all reports |
Sunday | 97 reported sightings | 14.97% of all reports |
Wednesday | 86 reported sightings | 13.27% of all reports |
Thursday | 85 reported sightings | 13.12% of all reports |
Tuesday | 74 reported sightings | 11.42% of all reports |
Monday | 59 reported sightings | 9.10% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2014 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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07/04/14 | 20 reported sightings | 3.09% of all reports |
04/05/14 | 11 reported sightings | 1.70% of all reports |
01/01/14 | 11 reported sightings | 1.70% of all reports |
06/21/14 | 9 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
01/25/14 | 9 reported sightings | 1.39% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2014 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 | 355 reported sightings | 54.78% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 104 reported sightings | 16.05% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 82 reported sightings | 12.65% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 50 reported sightings | 7.72% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 34 reported sightings | 5.25% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 23 reported sightings | 3.55% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2014
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2014
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.