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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 335 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2017 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (71 reports, 21.19% of total).
- January is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (39 reports, 11.64% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (73 reports, 21.79% of total).
- 04/25/17 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (10 reports, 2.99% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (165 reports, 49.25% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2017
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2017, 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:
Red lights with round and square shape passing over my house Almost New Years, we went out side to blow up the champagne ans I notice 2 red lights far way north of me, for the high of the lights I know was not fire works, plus they are in the same spot, for about 30 seconds ans a third light pop up also red, once the fire works started all around was funny the light start kind of flirking and a fouth light was very dimm but u can see looks like round discs far way and in high altitude, then they started moving in direction of south miami, and they change from a bright red color to a king of transparent but you can see the redness of the circle when they kind of came in lower altitude they pass right over my house, I turn the lights of the patio off so I can see better and then was 2 pass like a circle with very small red dots e 2 other was like a square shape, and you can see like roling movement and in red color, once I move to the other side of the patio facing south I still seen the ones in round shape but now in a! difent color like white but still in very dimm color. Also I notice the speed what they pass was kind a fast and we did not have any palm tree moving for wind. Also was no noise at all when they pass by.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).
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It was New Year's Eve, my family and I we're outside, I was about to leave when I looked up and seen an orange orb. I first thought it was a plane, but then realized it was moving very slowly and changing direction. It would get brighter then dimmer.
It would get so dim that you couldn't see it then all of a sudden show up again. I have video of this event.
Full Report Text:
Between 10:15 – 10:20 Two orange balls of light, in the west sky, possibly over Lake Okeechobee. I witnessed the first light and as I was watching it became brighter and then a second one appeared to the right. Ran inside to get my husband, when I came back out the second orange ball of light was quickly fading and the first one slowly faded away as well.
It happened on new years eve, and there were fireworks, but these were not fireworks, they resembled more of a star. Possibly a flare, but the was no trail of light or smoke or anything.
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Orange orbs moving single file over Sarasota FLORIDA airport. No noise. Low,, moving slow.
Vertical disappearance. Moving southwest to northeast over SRQ, Sarasota Airport. Slow moving Orange orbs.
No noise, very low to ground. Traveled in straight line. Some were side by side, rest in single file.
Suddenly headed vertical into the cloud cover. Then out of sight. All identical in size and color.
My first ever such experience. Truly amazing sight.
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Orangey-yellow light that flew higher up to the sky, dimmed out then disappeared, then appeared again in the same position. Around 8:30 pm my cousin and I went outside of our house to wait for a friend that was supposed to be pulling up. My cousin was holding onto a balloon filled with helium and she ended up letting go, so we both looked to the sky to watch it float away.
While we were looking to the sky, west of where we were standing, we both saw a very bright orangey-yellow light flying upwards from behind a couple of trees. It wasn't very close, it seemed to be a few neighborhoods over, and we were just watching it fly up. An airplane was flying at the time and I am very familiar with airplane lights, so when my cousin assumed it was an airplane, I assured her that it was not.
It was extremely bright and sort of round, so it could not have been an airplane. I only saw one, and in order to rationalize it, I thought that it could have been a paper lantern someone had lit and released into the air, that's how bright it was. However, it started getting higher in the sky and closer! to where my cousin and I were standing.
If it was a paper lantern, in a couple of minutes it should have caught fire and burned up. The light started dimming and that's what I assumed it was doing under the paper-lantern theory, and then it disappeared. We were still out there waiting for the friend, and after the 3 minutes it spent in the sky, I noticed it started glowing again after disappearing.
It regenerated in the same position in the sky that it disappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the event is approximate. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Approximately 8:30 in the evening on a clear night a two red lights moving equal distance apart from each other moved from East to West very high in the sky. It seemed to be moving faster than an airplane at first, it slowed, stopped, and reversed direction and hovered. Then disappeared so quickly it seemed to vanish.
Moments later a second one came floating from the same direction across the sky until it reached virtually the same location and then vanished as well. It's path was more direct without stops and starts. We looked through the binoculars but could only make out a dark object shaped like a cross with a light on the top and bottom or triangle in which only one half was visible by the light on the craft.
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An Oval w/ one circle on each side, vary shiny and translucent, it was also gray and red There was one oval with one circle attached on each side of it. It Was shaped cindof like an airplane. It was hovering in one place for about 2 min than it disappeared without a trace.
It was a little translucent, gray, red and vary shiny. We where driving in are car on I 95.
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A couple of friends and I were sitting out front of my garage when suddenly we noticed 8 red lights in the sky. A couple of them briefly formed almost like a triangle shape. The lights kept moving around and slowly each one would get higher up until it was no longer visible.
I have never seen anything like it. My husband did take a brief video of the last 3 lights. I am unsure if these were crafts that had lights on them or if they were just lights but I don't see how they could have been just lights due to the way they moved.
They made no sound and they were not anything man made in that you would normally see in the sky.
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16 amber-colored, triangular shapes. No Sound. No blinking nav lights.
Triangular in shape, amber in color, slow moving (helicopter speed), no sound. Over a period of 10 minutes, I saw 16 of these moving from ~North to ~South. At one point there were eight in the sky above my house at once, the other eight trickled in after, one or two at a time.
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Extremely loud engine. But we could not see what it was. It was flying over us , made windows shake.
Not a jet, helicopter, nor commercial plane. As it flew over us we still heard the engine roaring loudly away.
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3 gold spheres in a triangle formation near ellenton, fl Around 7 pm 3 bright gold sphere shaped objects appeared to the north of Ellenton, FL. They were moving steady, but very slowly. They were in a triangle formation and after about 5 mins immediately disappeared.
I tried to use my cell phone to record the event.but my phone froze and would not work. Upon their disappearance, my phone immediately worked fine.
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Approximately 7:30 p.m. I went on to my back porch and noticed a bright fireball in the sky getting closer to us.
It was in the western sky. I called to my fiancee to come look and he witnessed it as well. It then changed direction and seemed to fizzle out and then completely disappear.
It lasted under a minute. The fire ball got larger and seemed as if it was coming towards us.
Full Report Text:
4 silent objects at night each with 4 large red non-blinking lights moving east to west near Lake Okeechobee, Fl Took my dog outside about 10:00 pm Friday, 12/22/17 and saw 2 very dark red bright objects in the dark sky coming toward me east to west. There was no sound at all even though they seemed to only be as high as a small plane might fly. Each seemed to have 4 large red lights that did not blink.
The lights defined their shape, 2 behind 2 that almost touched. Could have been a square shape. One was a short distance from and a little ahead of the other, and not wavering from their path.
I watched them fly overhead until out of sight and then saw 2 more coming from the same direction appearing very much like the first 2 and moving in the same path. There were a few stars out and also a plane flying north to south so high it was barely visible. It probably took 4-5 minutes for each pair to move from first sighting to out of sight.
I found it amazing that there was no sound in the quiet night for such large objects. I retired after 27 years with the Okeechobee County Library System.
Full Report Text:
Unusual bright red sphere. Multiple videos available from 3 sources (all smartphones). Reddish orange sphere shot across sky and stopped in one spot remaining brightly lit (reddish orange) and remained on the spot for a few seconds before blinking out.
a minute later it came back on at the same spot and proceeded to descend about an inch lower than where it was, then blinked off again, a few seconds later it blinked back on and made a silent arch towards the right and descended again about an inch and blinked off.we are still watching the skies as we speak. Totally silent, brighter than an aircraft and fluid in its movements, almost like what you can project with a laser pen.
Object was far away, too far to be able to tell you for sure its distance. We saw it by two trees and knew it was right over the ocean.
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A Helicopter was circling the area for a long time. This led me to keep looking up to the sky. Then I noticed an orange light moving across the sky just above (off to the west of the house).
I moved away to get a better view; the orange light moved off in an arc direction towards the north. Then there were two more orange light source following in a equal distance following the first one. There was no sound; just very smooth motion and away into the distance.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Night- Saw Y shaped craft. Silent. Round lights covered bottom, but were dark.
((NUFORC Note: We spoke via telephone with the witness, and found her to be exceptionally well-spoken, eloquent, and sober-minded. She has stated that she will submit another report, with more detail about the sighting. She did not see the Description box below the Summary box on the Report Form.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
I was outside by my car when I saw these lights, it was too low for a plane and it couldn't be a drone due to so many trees in the area I spotted it at.I could see it moving through the trees, I watch d it for about 4 minutes straight before I decided to get the hell out of there. It was like 4 street lights in a line flying about 12 feet in the air.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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I saw a gray,large triangle shaped flying object above my head disappearing into the clouds and heading towards the ocean. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Full Report Text:
Dramatized by the sight. DEER PARK, FL. SIGHTING Account of Driver: ((name deleted)) At approximately 5:30 pm Est.
on 12/17/2017 driving west on FL 192, I observed object in driving field of view, heading from North to South over highway in front of me. It was rectangular in shape, maybe 10 miles ahead over horizon. Traveling at speeds never witnessed, very hard to estimate.
Possibly calculated 2000 mph? Object which was possibly sized comparison to Empire State building, was partically obscured by some type of liquid field, which made it blend into sky and clouds only to leave top left edge exposed in triangular shape (see diagram). Personally I was borderline traumatized by the sight! Interdimentional monolith slicing through time and space! Best description.
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((NUFORC Note: No information provided by witness. PD)).
Florida UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 71 reported sightings | 21.19% of all reports |
Circle | 51 reported sightings | 15.22% of all reports |
Sphere | 36 reported sightings | 10.75% of all reports |
Triangle | 27 reported sightings | 8.06% of all reports |
Fireball | 21 reported sightings | 6.27% of all reports |
Other | 16 reported sightings | 4.78% of all reports |
Unknown | 16 reported sightings | 4.78% of all reports |
Oval | 14 reported sightings | 4.18% of all reports |
Changing | 11 reported sightings | 3.28% of all reports |
Cigar | 10 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Diamond | 10 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
Disk | 9 reported sightings | 2.69% of all reports |
Cylinder | 8 reported sightings | 2.39% of all reports |
Formation | 7 reported sightings | 2.09% of all reports |
Chevron | 6 reported sightings | 1.79% of all reports |
Flash | 6 reported sightings | 1.79% of all reports |
Rectangle | 4 reported sightings | 1.19% of all reports |
Cross | 3 reported sightings | 0.90% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.60% of all reports |
Cone | 1 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 0.30% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2017 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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January | 39 reported sightings | 11.64% of all reports |
December | 38 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
April | 36 reported sightings | 10.75% of all reports |
March | 32 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
February | 32 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
July | 28 reported sightings | 8.36% of all reports |
October | 28 reported sightings | 8.36% of all reports |
November | 24 reported sightings | 7.16% of all reports |
September | 24 reported sightings | 7.16% of all reports |
August | 22 reported sightings | 6.57% of all reports |
May | 17 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
June | 15 reported sightings | 4.48% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 73 reported sightings | 21.79% of all reports |
Sunday | 56 reported sightings | 16.72% of all reports |
Tuesday | 52 reported sightings | 15.52% of all reports |
Friday | 50 reported sightings | 14.93% of all reports |
Wednesday | 38 reported sightings | 11.34% of all reports |
Monday | 34 reported sightings | 10.15% of all reports |
Thursday | 32 reported sightings | 9.55% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2017 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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04/25/17 | 10 reported sightings | 2.99% of all reports |
03/18/17 | 9 reported sightings | 2.69% of all reports |
12/31/17 | 7 reported sightings | 2.09% of all reports |
07/04/17 | 6 reported sightings | 1.79% of all reports |
04/26/17 | 5 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2017 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 | 165 reported sightings | 49.25% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 71 reported sightings | 21.19% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 52 reported sightings | 15.52% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 21 reported sightings | 6.27% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 17 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 9 reported sightings | 2.69% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2017
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2017
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.