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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 414 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2020 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (83 reports, 20.05% of total).
- April is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (66 reports, 15.94% of total).
- Thursday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (73 reports, 17.63% of total).
- 04/30/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (29 reports, 7.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (160 reports, 38.65% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2020
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2020, 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 triangle rapidly and silently moving East On 12/31/2020 at approximately 06:37 UTC (01:37 local/EST) I was in vicinity of the approach lights of Runway 35R at KMCO (this is shortly North-West of Lake Nona) when as I looked to the West I saw movement directly above me. What I observed was a triangular shaped aircraft flying on an approximate heading of 090, at a very high speed. The trailing edges of the object were illuminated in a neon green and they appeared to flicker similar to the way an NE-2 neon lamp or high pressure sodium street lamp flickers when you move your eyes as you look at it.
It looked very similar to the triangular shaped highlighters many of us had in school, where each corner of the triangle was a different color marker tip. The object appeared to be flying above or in a 5500' cloud deck (per the ATIS) and it covered perhaps 1/2-1/3 of my observable sky in under a second. I would estimate the object's speed to be approximately 300-500kt.
, it was well above the speed one might observe a typical commercial or GA aircraft upon departure. There was no sound or overpressure associated with this object and since I am unsure the height I am unable to determine the size of the object. It appeared about as big as a man's hand when viewed at arm's length, but again I am unsure of the size of the object.
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numerous objects heading southeast in staggered formation of 2-3 each with as many as 6 within 60 degree arc traversing sky from northwest to southeast at over 25K ft.
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Orange-reddish orb floating slowly heading West at about 400 feet making no sound Orange-reddish orb floating slowly heading West. No sounds. Altitude +/-400 feet.
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At 20:00 pm on the 29th of Dec 2020. I heard a swishing sound coming from our side of my home . I went to investigate looking up and down the block and saw nothing .
It was when I turn around to go back in side I saw very clear these 5 possible 6 glowing green lights in the sky. It was a very clear night with a full moon. Luckily I went outside with my new iPhone 12 decided to take a picture you can clearly see all five objects and then two three seconds later I took a second picture.
At that point the objects spin away at a very rapid speed east towards the ocean. To the naked eye the objects look like around a uniform disk. Upon examining my photographs I can actually see that they had some type of sweep back wings.
Similar to horsefly. At first I thought it they were drowns. But drowns have blinking lights usually red white.
They had neither they just glowed a emerald green color I have pictures. You could see their change in position in the photographs to prove that they were moving.
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3 bright white objects changed direction and shape formation, then merged into 1 oblong object On 12/28/2020 at 2:45 pm, it was a bright and sunny day with no clouds in the sky. I was walking outside in my neighborhood that has a lot of pine trees, and when I came to an incline with a clearing of trees that exposed the sky, I looked up and noticed 3 distinct bright white round objects arranged in a straight line moving west. As I continued walking, I noticed that the 3 objects began to move around each other as you would move shells in a shell game.
They slowed down, almost stopping, then formed a perfect triangle. This is when I tried to take a video, which I got for a second or so until a tree branch obscured my view. As I moved to an opening to keep watching, the 3 triangular objects merged into 1 oblong object that was now moving in the opposite direction (east).
The object kept moving eastward as one oblong object. There was a passenger airplane in the vicinity, that was distinctly and obviously an airplane, unlike these 3 objects that moved, sl! owed, changed shape and direction. I watched the object(s) for about 5 minutes, then kept walking, while they were still present.
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5 red orbs appeared north of Manatee river heading tree top level heading west by south west over Bradenton fl while gaining altitude into the clouds.
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I was standing at the gas station waiting on car to be lifted on a tow truck. A object shooting up caught my attention. I thought it was fireworks so I waited for the bang.
But no bang, the object just went straight up. As I continued to look the object appeared to have a flame and now started on a horizontal path opposed to the initial vertical flight. It flew away with a clear, sting ray like shape and motion towards the North East, small flame still in the middle body area.
This took place at the Exxon 6390 Sheridan St Hollywood, FL 33024 At the Air/Water machine.
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Orange orb over Indian River Shores Florida While waiting to go on duty, I noticed what appeared to be a flare coming from the north in the vicinity of Cape Canaveral. At first I thought it may have been a rocket launch then I realized it was heading in a south westerly direction when all rocket launches always go east toward the ocean. I started recording on my iPhone it appeared first as I said a large flare then it seem to be two points of white light then back into a flare in a circular shape.
It continued in a south westerly direction at approximately 2 to 4000 feet speed I guess 100 to 150 miles an hour similar to a small plane. It made no sound and there were no navigation lights it was close enough that if it was a aircraft it would have made a sound. After I shot the video I showed it to a fellow officer and as I was showing him another one appeared somewhat Stationæry and then headed in Westerly direction.
Just to clarify I work security midnight shift patrolling.
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Disc shaped with red orb spotted Me and my wife was out headed west towards Cypress Point beach in Tampa to view and photograph sights of the Jupiter moon. While on our way we happened to snap a shot of the skyline while driving (and without looking up) and proceeded to head towards the beach to view the bright orange moon. However, It wasn’t until we got back home before finding out that there was something else in the air in the photo/video.
The good thing about the picture is that it was snapped on the IPhone live shot; so it’s actually a short video. •From the looks of the picture/video: the object is disc shaped with a small red orb leading it• We did not witness this with our own two eyes, we only happen to snap the shot and seen it on our photo.
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Re-Submission I submitted my report a couple years back and my picture was not attached. I’ve emailed (2-3 times) and even spoke to someone on the hotline and was informed to resubmit my report so that you can attach the photo to my report. Thank you.
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21.12.2020 "Star of Bethlehem" Great Conjunction, Large Rectangular Non-Moving UFO This is a true account or may god punish me.
On December 21 2020 I was invited by the son of a high ranking freemason to attend a viewing party for the great conjunction aka the "star of Bethlehem." Shortly after sunset our group was in the backyard waiting for some prime stargazing. About 45 minutes after sunset a huge fireball fell in an arc towards earth and since it was the end of a mayan cycle we were unsure if this was the end of our world.
There was no danger however when we looked back up there was a huge rectangular prism hovering above us that was only illuminated in a haze by the lights from our surface. It was composed on the outside of triangular crossbars and it did not move in the slightest. It was the length of many football fields so that we could not see the end in either direction but we could observe its' width which occupied ~1/10 of the observable sky.
~2 minutes after the craft appeared a black helicopter appeared and was hovering directly above our group so low that the trees were swaying and it persisted for ~3 minutes thereafter. The homeowner's cat is normally very calm but it was showing signs of extreme distress. The craft persisted for ~1 hour before floating upwards and disappearing.
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Thought we were looking for a planet that was supposed to be close Stared at a plant that was supposed to be visible. After 10 or more minutes it started to move extremely fast. At that point I recorded it moving on my phone and had my friends wife come see it to make sure we were not crazy.
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White cigar shaped like the history channel F-18 incident. Zips around the sky and zooms off I saw a UFO over the Gulf of Mexico off of Dunedin, FL that looks like the one that the F-18s were chasing on the History Channel. My neighbor, who is a retired Lt Fire Fighter says that he and his family saw one just like it on their farm when he was younger and it flew the same way.
It just disappears and reappears nearby numerous times then glows and disappears permanently.
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The two balls of light in the sky would disappear together, and seperate, going from disappearing to dim to super bright. Bottom one would go really small to really big. The bottom one was also brighter.
There has been an abnormal amount of planes in the sky, before, and as this occured.
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I saw 6 crafts in the shape of a cube, 4 on the outside, 2 perfectly going around each other in an infinity sign It was weird with what i saw, i heard a weird buzzing noise in my ear and i asked to go outside and in broad daylight i saw extremly bright lights pulsing back in fourth in a infinity motion.
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Fireball.
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Looking at moon and planets Saturn and Jupiter. 18:30. Sun just went down.
Some small low clowds. Saw two blinking lights in clouds moving in my direction near Moon. They stopped.
A few seconds later they started moving. Stopped. Flashing white lights in equal distance.
No sounds. The lights would turn on and off in random. Moved in opposite direction quickly out of sight.
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Star like light moving very fast I was driving down the road I normal always do that connects both city's and as im driving up on this overpass as soon I pass over it I see this very bright whitish/light blue light standing still almost as a star but then moved really fast down wards and disappeared. After doing more research I did notice Geminid Meteor Shower is going on during the same days.
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Big, black, triangular, no windows, no sound, no contrails and no lights untill it was about a mile away then it turn straight up glowed like a Christmas tree then poof it was gone. I'm not sure if it just disappeared or it shut its lights down and I no longer could track it due to the dark morning sky. It flew so slow and just about 20 feet above my house.
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Triangle chevron shaped with fixed lights flying low and fast it disappeared into thin air We were watching the meteor shower when I saw what looked like a formation of birds just above the apartment roof. I turned to my friend I said “wow it’s late for formation of birds that’s crazy“ at that point the craft took off so fast. It jetted away in less than a second as if into thin air.
It looked like lights flying in formation. All the lights outside were flickering and we heard inhuman screeching. Moments later a jet flew where we had just seen the craft as if it was chasing it.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 83 reported sightings | 20.05% of all reports |
Circle | 56 reported sightings | 13.53% of all reports |
Fireball | 27 reported sightings | 6.52% of all reports |
Triangle | 26 reported sightings | 6.28% of all reports |
Oval | 24 reported sightings | 5.80% of all reports |
Unknown | 21 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Sphere | 21 reported sightings | 5.07% of all reports |
Other | 20 reported sightings | 4.83% of all reports |
Changing | 18 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Disk | 17 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
Cigar | 17 reported sightings | 4.11% of all reports |
Formation | 14 reported sightings | 3.38% of all reports |
Rectangle | 12 reported sightings | 2.90% of all reports |
Chevron | 7 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 0.72% of all reports |
Flash | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
Cross | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
Diamond | 2 reported sightings | 0.48% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 66 reported sightings | 15.94% of all reports |
January | 58 reported sightings | 14.01% of all reports |
February | 37 reported sightings | 8.94% of all reports |
November | 37 reported sightings | 8.94% of all reports |
May | 35 reported sightings | 8.45% of all reports |
December | 30 reported sightings | 7.25% of all reports |
October | 29 reported sightings | 7.00% of all reports |
July | 28 reported sightings | 6.76% of all reports |
March | 28 reported sightings | 6.76% of all reports |
August | 27 reported sightings | 6.52% of all reports |
September | 25 reported sightings | 6.04% of all reports |
June | 14 reported sightings | 3.38% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 73 reported sightings | 17.63% of all reports |
Sunday | 68 reported sightings | 16.43% of all reports |
Wednesday | 66 reported sightings | 15.94% of all reports |
Saturday | 65 reported sightings | 15.70% of all reports |
Tuesday | 56 reported sightings | 13.53% of all reports |
Monday | 46 reported sightings | 11.11% of all reports |
Friday | 40 reported sightings | 9.66% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2020 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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04/30/20 | 29 reported sightings | 7.00% of all reports |
01/12/20 | 10 reported sightings | 2.42% of all reports |
04/07/20 | 9 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
01/01/20 | 9 reported sightings | 2.17% of all reports |
04/29/20 | 8 reported sightings | 1.93% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2020 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 | 160 reported sightings | 38.65% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 73 reported sightings | 17.63% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 64 reported sightings | 15.46% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 60 reported sightings | 14.49% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 31 reported sightings | 7.49% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 26 reported sightings | 6.28% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2020
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2020
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.