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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 233 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2018 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (46 reports, 19.74% of total).
- July is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (34 reports, 14.59% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (36 reports, 15.45% of total).
- 07/04/18 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (7 reports, 3.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (106 reports, 45.49% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2018
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2018, 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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Green blinking lights zig zag in the sky Florida On New Years Eve at around 23:00hrs., we witness what appeared to be a green flashing light hovering in the sky it flashed on and off several times before it appeared to skip to another location quickly in the sky. Watched as it zig zagged around then float off to another location over a park are well lit and noticed the same flashing green lights blinking off and on then rise a few feet up into the sky in seconds then quickly back down then up again in seconds then float off and turn off then nothing.
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Orange glowing object racing though the sky. After leaving a local restaurant my wife and I saw a orange glowing object that speed across the sky. No noise and it was probable 1,000 feet up in the air.
I operate a drone and I know what a drone would look like in the sky. At first we though it was a Chinese lantern, but it was much larger than that.
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New Years eve 2018 Delta shaped aircraft of unknown type. On 12/31/2018 at about 2050 hours I observed directly overhead of me what I thought was a Chinese flying lamp such as a balloon containing a lantern that was burning and falling to earth. The flaming object disappeared, as if the flame was extinguished.
I kept looking for falling debris but found instead a delta shaped flying craft SILENTLY travelling east towards KSC or Kennedy Space Center. I was able to observe it for about 1 to 2 minutes. It was travelling at the speed of a commercial aircraft like the kind at Orlando Airport MCO.
It was darker than the sky above it. It was triangular and silent at about 5000 to 10000 feet above the earth. I am a military veteran, so I assumed it was a "black" project heading to KSC to land.
What gave it away was the Chinese lantern effect upon reentry in the atmosphere. I emphasize that it was completely silent and very black. I lost track of it in about two minutes while it travelled east in a straight line.
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Eight red/orange lights moving generally south to northerly direction. 2 stacked lead and the rest separated by a good distance from one another. They moved slowly north.
My family saw them as well as my neighbor.
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10-12 orange lights seen at night on 95 South in Titusville. Within about 5 minutes they changed formation 3 times before disappearing. Driving on 95 South at night, the driver noticed a group of orange lights in the formation of the Big Dipper.
There were about 10-12 lights and they were bigger than stars, but not huge. The driver pointed out the lights to the 2 passengers. The lights then changed formation to a crooked vertical line with 3 of them making a triangle close to the top of the line.
After a minute or so they changed formation again into a straight vertical line. After another minute or so they completely disappeared.
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no data, and elects to remain anonymous. PD)).
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Alien beings just outside my window. Put up a screen like cloth to cloak themselves and there craft. I could see through it and have m.
Several alien beings and there spacecraft were outside my window. I have many pictures and would like you to contact me ASAP, thank you.
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MADAR Node 135.
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MADAR Node 135.
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4 orange spheres moving in formation 4 bright orange/red oval shapes slowing moving in a square formation. The orange light that they were emitting did not blink like a commercial airplane. One by one, each craft shot up into the atmosphere.
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During my nightly ritual of looking up stars with an app called Star Walk I noticed 2 very odd lights, very high up, apprx 50k-75k ft. I can guess this because I live a few miles south and east of Miami International, there are planes landing and taking off all the time and I was able to get a plane at flying altitude as a comparison. Using the Star Chart app I confirmed it was not Cassiopedia and no other visible stars were at this location.
Two lights. One bright white with another just beside it slowing drifting due east. Watched with my dad as they very very slowly moved east until they were gone.
Not very dramatic but I am certain they weren't planes. Definitely not stars. With all the light polution in Miami they were incredibly bright and any planets and stars would have definitely shown up on the star chart.
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A bright white light flashed and then a green light appeared and floated across the sky until it vanished. A bright white light flashed across the sky and immediately after a glowing green light began hovering directly under the flash. The green light then proceeded to float across the sky and vanished into the distance.
The light was moving at a moderate speed and was visible for 6-7 seconds. ((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no contact information. PD)).
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Orange (fire color) object. very bright. low flying across almost the entire sky from west to east.
very slow moving and no sound as it past over head. it slowly dimmed and faded out.
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I looked off to the South and noticed a bunch of Lights coming from down low from the South heading to the east and they were making no noise no green or blue lights blinking it kept coming so I went inside and got my girlfriend and she came out and did the video on it never made no noise or anything was really strange.
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((NUFORC Note: Witness provides no information. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate. PD)).
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5 orange glowing slow moving lights that come across sky the disappeared. Then minute later, a few more then few more the first ones was scattered up and down next three were straight line.
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Stationary object(s) over Destin Florida I woke up unexpectedly about 1:45. I went outside to smoke. I saw the object, it looked like a crystal.
Mostly pink and blue. It looked to have three lights, like a stoplight. It was stationary and stayed just above the treeline.
My eye was drawn to another set of lights and then a third, but I think the third may have been someone's Christmas tree through the trees. I felt fully awake and frightened. I stared at it for a bit and then the sky began to lighten, like when the sun starts coming up.
I grew afraid and went back inside my apartment. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Saucer heading north, apparently slowing down. I thought it a high flying bird till it tilted on a 45-degree angle, and I saw the dome. It was flying from South to North.
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I noticed two green dots way up in the sky. As we kept driving they got more vivid. I insisted on stopping so I can take a picture.
The view from my camera phone showed the object bouncing up and down and left and right sort of in the same area though. I took about 10 or 15 pictures. Then I zoomed in with my camera and begin to make a video.
It was changing colors from blue to green to Yellow to Orange. It seems to have a distinct Ring around The edge with a few spiky shaped things coming around the outside edge. Maybe three of them? It started shooting way up high and down low in all directions to the left and the right all corners of my camera screen blinking and changing colors all the while.
Towards the end it was zipping back and forth so fast it seems to split off in two or three different crafts. But I believe it was just the speed of the object that made it appear that way. It never did disappear the only reason I left is because the person that was ! with me insisted on going.
I would have stayed there forever. I zoomed in on some of the still shots that I took later on. Amazing! I swear it seem to be a being in there with big dark eyes a little skinny neck and a greenish colored head.
If you zoom in on some of the steel shots you'll see what I'm speaking of. It is the most amazing beautiful thing I've ever seen in my life! I would have stayed there all night until it went away if I had an option.
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I observed red flashing lights sometimes alternating to greenish and yellow color. Above my porch on Indian Creek Drive and 41st Street Miami Beach Florida November 23rd, 11:05 p.m.
For the first few minutes of my observation it was in a fixed position not even moving. After 5 or 6 minutes I took out my phone video as I was filming it started moving very very slowly towards the northern direction as I was facing south. Suddenly it just sped away like a blink of an eye towards the northern Direction which I couldn't see it anymore since I have an overhead porch.
It definitely was not an airplane or a helicopter because it was soundless, in addition it did not fit the lighting configuration of an aircraft or helicopter, which I'm very familiar with, since I fly planes myself. Again it was just a bunch of red flashing beacons and sometimes alternating to greenish yellow color. I took some video footage but just for the last few seconds before it disappeared as my hand was not steady so it seems like it was moving but it was just actually moving very very slowly towards the end of this phenomena before it just vanished towards the North direction.
Check out YouTube heading UFO Red Ball. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
Florida UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 46 reported sightings | 19.74% of all reports |
Circle | 41 reported sightings | 17.60% of all reports |
Sphere | 21 reported sightings | 9.01% of all reports |
Other | 18 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
Unknown | 18 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
Fireball | 14 reported sightings | 6.01% of all reports |
Disk | 12 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Triangle | 12 reported sightings | 5.15% of all reports |
Changing | 7 reported sightings | 3.00% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 2.58% of all reports |
Oval | 5 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
Chevron | 4 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
Cigar | 4 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
Cylinder | 4 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
Egg | 3 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
Formation | 2 reported sightings | 0.86% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2018 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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July | 34 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
January | 23 reported sightings | 9.87% of all reports |
March | 20 reported sightings | 8.58% of all reports |
June | 20 reported sightings | 8.58% of all reports |
February | 19 reported sightings | 8.15% of all reports |
August | 19 reported sightings | 8.15% of all reports |
April | 18 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
October | 18 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
December | 18 reported sightings | 7.73% of all reports |
November | 17 reported sightings | 7.30% of all reports |
September | 16 reported sightings | 6.87% of all reports |
May | 11 reported sightings | 4.72% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2018 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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Thursday | 36 reported sightings | 15.45% of all reports |
Friday | 34 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
Monday | 34 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
Sunday | 33 reported sightings | 14.16% of all reports |
Wednesday | 33 reported sightings | 14.16% of all reports |
Saturday | 33 reported sightings | 14.16% of all reports |
Tuesday | 30 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2018 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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07/04/18 | 7 reported sightings | 3.00% of all reports |
01/01/18 | 7 reported sightings | 3.00% of all reports |
01/19/18 | 5 reported sightings | 2.15% of all reports |
12/31/18 | 4 reported sightings | 1.72% of all reports |
03/11/18 | 3 reported sightings | 1.29% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2018 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 | 106 reported sightings | 45.49% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 42 reported sightings | 18.03% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 34 reported sightings | 14.59% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 26 reported sightings | 11.16% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 15 reported sightings | 6.44% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 10 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2018
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2018
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.