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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 416 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2019 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (82 reports, 19.71% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (56 reports, 13.46% of total).
- Tuesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (68 reports, 16.35% of total).
- 12/31/19 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (11 reports, 2.64% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (166 reports, 39.90% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2019
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2019, 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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8-9 Disc shaped lights moving south about 1000 feet up with no sound. Single large disc shaped lights moved one at a time going south at varying speeds. Took video from phone but doesn’t do what we saw with the naked eye justice.
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3 unidentified bright orange objects travelling in the same direction 3 bright orange objects were seen by a husband and wife age 64 and 58, and their relative, an 88 year old woman visiting from England. The wife is a senior airport supervisor, and the husband, a professional health-medical writer. The objects were moving together in a straight line with a distance between them, travelling from north north west to south west toward Oviedo or Titusville, FL.
The objects were solid and consistent in their appearance during the duration of the sighting. There was no sound heard, and no flashing or blinking lights. Their height is hard to determine as their size could not be discerned, but wife thinks the height could have been around 15,000 feet or so.
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I was in Fort Lauderdale, FL looking toward the East on New Years Eve and I saw a bright orange light in the sky. At first I thought it was a drone, but the altitude, speed and distance it traveled led me to believe that it was not a drone. It moved from North to South across the sky and disappeared to the South.
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At work on New Year's Eve. As I looked up in the sky watching the fireworks. I noticed a glowing orange red orb around 70 to 90 feet above my head.
There was no sound and moving at a slow pace. Once that past by my head I noticed a second orb moving in the same direction from the north to the south.
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Two VERY bright glowing objects moving from north to south over Polk County on New Year's eve, 2019 I was born and raised in the Orlando area for over 22 years, have lived in Lakeland for 31 years and have seen probably 75+ launches of rockets (including satellites, Apollo missions, space shuttle launches, Space X launches) in my 57 years of life. I have been a pilot for 32 years and worked in the airline industry for 17 years. Last night (New Year’s eve-12/31/19), my wife and I saw something I have never seen before.
We were pulling into our subdivision at 22:45 and to the east of Lakeland (probably over Winter Haven) we both witnessed a VERY bright, orange glowing oval shaped object. It was not ascending or descending. It was moving at the same altitude from a northern to southern direction.
It resembled what a night rocket launch looks like from a distance-without a smoke trail, but in a horizontal, not vertical attitude. I stopped my car, got out and started filming it on my phone. Suddenly, another one appeared behind the first one.
As the second object disappeared behind a tree, I got back into the car and sped to my house one minute away. I ran to my backyard and out onto my dock on our lake where I could have had an unobstructed view of the two objects to the east. When I got out there…90 seconds or so after seeing the last object, they were both no longer visible.
I stayed out there for 3-4 more minutes scanning the sky in 360 degrees and could not locate the again.
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One orange circular object traveling NW to SE, no strobes, disappeared, followed shortly by two identical others, with second overtaking lead light, second disappearing followed shortly by other with no reappearance of any of three. No trail, no sound.
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Orange glowing fireball or object ;noiseless. I was outside looking at fireworks on new Years Eve and I saw a bright deep orange round shape possible burning like a rocket engine would but on the whole craft. It moved in a straight line from west to east: from the St Johns river area to possibly the Ocean .
It was completely silent and looked about 15000 to 80000 feet high. I saw it for about 90 seconds. There was no tail.
No exhaust plumes. Appeared traveling about the spped of a small plane.
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About 10:10 pm new years Eve, walking my dog, I looked up towards the west and saw a huge orange / reddish light moving silent across the sky. There was no sound, it moved to the so. East at a slow speed then completely vanished, then to my superise I looked up again and 2 more identical lights exactly as the first one were moving in the same direction this time I videoed them for about 2:45 seconds.
I thought possibly maybe drones, but then, I'm just not sure what they were, there were no strobe lights no wings and no sounds and I was absolutely stunned. I was wondering if anyone else had seen this event last night? BTW, I have 5 pic's and a 2:42 second video.
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Cigar shaped object seen New Years eve, 12/31/19 at 2pm in south central Florida. While driving from Lake Wales to Vero Beach the object was in the air about at the 5 story level. It was to the north of highway 60.
It was a clear and beautiful day. The sighting was at 2pm in the afternoon. ((names of two witnesses deleted)).
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MADAR Node 91.
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Saw a very shiny small object in the sky. Hovered for 5 seconds and then disappeared.
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I was driving from cocoa beach to merritt island on highway 520 when I saw a light in the sky I observed the light for a few minutes as I noticed the center started to get brighter then it vanished moments later I noticed a light further in the sky moving then vanished the light was wide with an arch at the bottom and the top seemed to be flat.
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I was out looking at what I thought was a extremely bright star but then tit moved. It circled a few times, twinkling the whole time, then stopped moving and twinkling, then vanished, like a light just switched off.
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Large bright light high in the sky. The light was very bright it was hovering then started to drop at a fast rate. The bright was hovering over the Gulf very low.
All of the sudden it bursted into high rate of speed light disappeared but a very loud noise afterwards.
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MADAR Node 91.
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Me and my siblings were in our backyard when we noticed the two UFOs. They were in a diagonal line with the 2 ufos being at each end of the line. Then they moved to the left.
Making them A straight line. They moved to the left again making them another diagonal line. But then the UFO on the right started to leave and it went East.
Now the one UFO that is still there started to leave a couple minutes after the other UFO left. And the second UFO went north. The two UFOs where a darkish orange light, but as they started to leave they became a dim white.
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MADAR Node 76.
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Red Orb hovered then took off south on Christmas Day At 8:30pm I had gone out to test a LED work light I got for Christmas in the woods behind my house. I went out behind my house and looked towards the west and saw a red object slow pulsating and becoming solid right above the tree line it continued to float up and down for about 15 - 30 seconds then started moving towards the south at a moderate speed with no sound at all. I started to run to see if I could catch it to see where it was going but it was simply too fast I even went out driving to look for it and ended up finding nothing.
Previously maybe three years or more I’ve seen the exact same object around the holidays more then once.
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Saw what looked like large fireballs, orange to red in color, approach from the west (Gulf of Mexico) and hover for a few seconds above our small lake. Then moved very abruptly south. A moment later a trio of the same objects repeated the same, these three hovered together for slightly longer.
We were able to make out a round shape, with the underneath having an alternating pattern of 3 straight lines and 3 pod shapes which together resembled a flower-like pattern. I assumed this was the power source. The trio also moved abruptly to the south.
Another minute passed and a single object appeared and did the exact same thing, for a total of 5 objects. We heard no sound whatsoever from the objects.
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I was getting ready for a jog on the beach and had a overwhelming feeling that someone was staring at me .I turned and faced the ocean and thats when i noticed a milky object coming from the sky towards the beach .i instantly took my phone out and started videotaping it.
the video i have is absolutely unbelievable and i dont know were to start to get it in the hands of the proper authority.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2019 By Shape
This is a standardized set of shapes a UFO report can be filed under.
| Shape / Appearance | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| Light | 82 reported sightings | 19.71% of all reports |
| Circle | 41 reported sightings | 9.86% of all reports |
| Other | 31 reported sightings | 7.45% of all reports |
| Triangle | 28 reported sightings | 6.73% of all reports |
| Fireball | 27 reported sightings | 6.49% of all reports |
| Unknown | 25 reported sightings | 6.01% of all reports |
| Sphere | 20 reported sightings | 4.81% of all reports |
| Disk | 16 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
| Formation | 16 reported sightings | 3.85% of all reports |
| Changing | 14 reported sightings | 3.37% of all reports |
| Oval | 12 reported sightings | 2.88% of all reports |
| Rectangle | 9 reported sightings | 2.16% of all reports |
| Cylinder | 8 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
| Cigar | 8 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
| Chevron | 5 reported sightings | 1.20% of all reports |
| Flash | 4 reported sightings | 0.96% of all reports |
| Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
| Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
| Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
| Egg | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
| Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
| Orb | 1 reported sightings | 0.24% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2019 By Month
This data point is an aggregation of all UFO reports by the month the sighting occured in.
| Month | Sightings | % Of Total |
|---|---|---|
| December | 56 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
| October | 47 reported sightings | 11.30% of all reports |
| November | 39 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
| September | 37 reported sightings | 8.89% of all reports |
| April | 36 reported sightings | 8.65% of all reports |
| June | 35 reported sightings | 8.41% of all reports |
| July | 33 reported sightings | 7.93% of all reports |
| May | 29 reported sightings | 6.97% of all reports |
| August | 29 reported sightings | 6.97% of all reports |
| March | 27 reported sightings | 6.49% of all reports |
| February | 24 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
| January | 24 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2019 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Tuesday | 68 reported sightings | 16.35% of all reports |
| Friday | 67 reported sightings | 16.11% of all reports |
| Monday | 66 reported sightings | 15.87% of all reports |
| Saturday | 56 reported sightings | 13.46% of all reports |
| Sunday | 54 reported sightings | 12.98% of all reports |
| Wednesday | 54 reported sightings | 12.98% of all reports |
| Thursday | 51 reported sightings | 12.26% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2019 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12/31/19 | 11 reported sightings | 2.64% of all reports |
| 12/16/19 | 9 reported sightings | 2.16% of all reports |
| 11/22/19 | 8 reported sightings | 1.92% of all reports |
| 03/14/19 | 7 reported sightings | 1.68% of all reports |
| 12/15/19 | 6 reported sightings | 1.44% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2019 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Night | 20:00 - 23:59 | 166 reported sightings | 39.90% of all reports |
| Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 86 reported sightings | 20.67% of all reports |
| Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 59 reported sightings | 14.18% of all reports |
| Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 58 reported sightings | 13.94% of all reports |
| Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 24 reported sightings | 5.77% of all reports |
| Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 23 reported sightings | 5.53% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2019
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2019
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.