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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 295 UFO sighting reports in Florida from 2023 to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (44 reports, 14.92% of total).
- February is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (40 reports, 13.56% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (57 reports, 19.32% of total).
- 07/28/23 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (9 reports, 3.05% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (150 reports, 50.85% of total).
Florida UFO Sighting Reports in 2023
This is a sampling of 20 Florida UFO reports from 2023, 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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A bright light slowly moved over the horizon toward me but slightly north it then got a bit larger then suddenly got smaller rapidly and was gone. No trail at any time. At first I thought it was a plane I see a lot here but it was a bigger light and just one vs usually they have the few lights on the bottom so then thinking it was a launch from the cape, but there was none last night I'm sorry I don't know much else, I am unsure about elevations and distance.
Or which direction it was headed relative to me. I went out into the woods to gather more sticks for the family NY eve fire when I saw it. No phone with me so no pictures, none of the others saw it.
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Huge Invasion Size Fleet Got on video this time a large fleet of tic tac ufos crossing above location, with gen3 night vision, as an airplane was coming from the left of where the fleet was heading. The small plane was moving much slower in speed. Video just doesn't do them justice compared to watching them live with monocular, they are perfectly clear and shaped just like a tic tac mint and appear white in color with night vision and no visible trail or sound.
You can see them maneuvering and changing positions as they pass by. They are very fast and cross from horizon to horizon in approx. 10 to 15 seconds.
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It wavered and seemed way to large to be a drone I have a video 1 circle object. White or yellow. Wavered across sky for approximently 6 seconds than disappeared.
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Saw two different moving items in the air. Moved under cloud cover. I was parked on the side of the Walmart building.
Someone else alerted me to look up in the sky. When I looked up I saw two red lights in the sky, one a little above the other. Underneath these red lights I saw a moving pastel colored orb moving horizontally.
It was the shape of the head of a jellyfish. It moved quickly underneath cloud cover, about the speed of a plane. The red lights didn’t seem to look like they were moving, but the clouds covered them.
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Object moving erratically over rocket launch. We were out in front of the house watching the launch of the USSF-52 SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket and I was recording the launch on my phone as I had never seen a live launch. I took 3-4 recordings of it as it moved along.
Once back inside the house I wanted to see if any of the recordings turned out. On one recording I had 6 seconds of video. As I watched it I noticed something moving above the rocket.
I zoomed in on the video and saw what looked like a star moving quite erratically above the rocket towards the top middle as the video shows. I thought maybe I was moving the camera but noticed the stars were not moving but the object still was.
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS Starlink-130 (6-36).
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Falcon 9 SpaceX SLC-40, Cape Canaveral SFS Starlink-130 (6-36).
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What appeared as bright star like points of light which would suddenly appear increasing in brightness and then fade away. This sighting was made by myself and my fellow pilot as we were headed south along the east coast of Florida headed to West Palm Beach flying a Cessna Citation Latitude. At FL400 my fellow pilot called my attention to a single point of light maybe 15-20 degrees up from the horizon and west of our position.
The light would appear and increase in brightness to that of a bright planet before fading out and disappearing. The event would last for 10 to 25 seconds and repeat after an estimated 2 to 3 minutes. The time between events did vary.
During the approximately 20 minutes we observed this light its position remained constant relative to us making the light seem to be at a great distance. We began our descent and last observed the light at about 25,000’. At one point during descent probably around 35,000’ my fellow pilot aimed his iPhone camera to the area we were seeing this and was able to film the only time we saw two lights.
I will attach his video.
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Several orbs fly above my home every night beginning at 6:30-7pm. When it starts to get dark. One hovered right above my roof today Since mid 2022 I began seeing glowing orbs as soon as the sun would go down.
These orbs have begun flying and showing themselves more and more. They pass right above my home. I have tons of video of them.
They don’t make a sound and appear from the air and continue on a path silently. Today in particular one orb was flying around and i started filming and it stopped moving and starting to decend lower and lower until it was hovering right above the roof of my house for several minutes. It got so close that I ran into my home in fear.
It was interacting with me as I felt it knew I was filming it. It was terrifying. Since that occurred I have been outside and I saw another low flying orb that has stared circling where I live.
It may be the same one. I am scared to be outside at the moment as I felt it was definitely trying to make contact.
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Red bulb of light that slowly faded to yellow and then to gray before floating there. I was sitting on my porch on my computer when this red ball of light appeared from the darkness. I thought it was a flare at first but the way it had appeared out of no where and had no visible tail made me think other wise.
It slowly faded to yellow and then to gray before floating there. This was when I recorded it on my phone.
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We saw an orangish sphere heading south then turning east. We where traveling on veterans blvd in Port Charlotte fl heading east from Murdock towards Charlotte harbor when we Saw an orange colored sphere with a reddish comet like tail. The tail slowly disappeared and we could still see the object it was slightly dimmer than when we first sighted it going south then turning eastward it was gaining elevation slower than a commercial plane.
If I had to estimate its size I would say 2 times the size of a commercial airliner.
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Bright, slightly shape shifting orb I was driving home from work and saw what looked light an extremely bright star in the sky. However, it was only 5pm and still bright outside. I noticed it move slightly and began to take pictures.
My live picture was setting was on for the first image and I was able to break it down into multiple frames when I got home. I was able to take 3 pictures total before it quickly disappeared. I've never seen anything like it.
When I went through the frame-by-frame, there are a few frames where the orb splits into two. I have included the three original images, as well as a screenshot I took of the zoomed in frame-by-frame shot of the split. I watched a report from earlier today in Melbourne FL, and its behavior and appearance looked similar, but closer in terms of distance.
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They kept flying zig zag and when I pointed a laser at it it disappears and reappears.
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It was like an oval shape but bigger on one side with jagged edges. We saw a bright flash like someone took our picture in the dark. After that we looked up and saw the object.
It seemed massive in size. The whole perimeter of the object was illuminated with a white light. Oval shaped but bigger on one side and jagged like a rock.
It was not moving across the sky like a satellite or space station. Seemed to be moving away. Hard to tell how high it was? It was definitely higher than airplane traffic at 35,000’.
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Hovering in place until shooting off southbound and disappearing in a small flash of light. Was in my work truck heading to my very last stop at Dustin‘s barbecue off of Wickham Road when I saw the object seemingly suspended in place, not moving in any apparent direction. Filmed the object for approximately one minute to show its immobility before it seemed to Shoot off directly away from me before disappearing in a small flash of light.
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We were swimming, I just so happened to look up and saw strange lights. Me, my children, and family, were swimming when I noticed it first after looking up. I thought maybe I was seeing things until I looked at my sister in law and said- Did you see that or am I crazy? There were two orbs that were going in circles chasing each other kind of, I’m not sure but they were moving so fast in the sky it looked unreal.
It looked nothing like a normal plane or aircraft going by it moved WAY too fast. By then it went away for a few minutes and I told everyone by this time- even the neighbors came out and saw what ever was moving at the speed of light. After about half an hour there was no more sight of the orbs.
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Saw two tictac shaped objects, silent from where I was, swimming backstroke. 3rd object came shortly after. Have to assume these were drones, but could not find similar shapes in search.
They were flying slowly, whatever they were. Silent. In the first pass, one was slightly in front of the other, flying along and to the ocean side and just above the Carlyle, a condo building of 3 or 4 stories.
Looked like they could have been as large as a small car, but shaped for all the world like a giant tictac. Route was south to north between that building ( Carlyle) and The Lodge and Club at Ponte Vedra Beach. Closer to the Carlyle, and slightly west of Ocean Blvd.
watched them go and went back to swimming. Then a 3rd one followed shortly after. Might have been 1 minute, might have been 2.
might have been a drone coming back for another pass without its friend. Whatever. 3rd one flew on the other side of the Carlyle, west side of that building, just above roof height.
Again the path was south to north. Nothing else happened. No military planes showed up from NAS Jax or Mayport.
Assumed if it was dangerous, they would have. Continued my swim. You see all kinds of stuff swimming backstroke, but this was a first.
If I had not been swimming backstroke, I would never have seen them -- unless maybe sitting poolside looking north, which no one does because the sun is not coming from that direction. If I'd had a camera or phone, I would have taken a picture. There wasn't anybody else in the pool to do it.
I looked around. Employees inside were, you know, inside. Lifeguard either gone for the day or not present at that time.
If I had gotten out of the pool to got inside, they would have been gone. I'm not sure on the day, honestly. It was last week ( last week of November, first couple days of December), and I swam in reverse order, Sunday 12/3, sat 12/2, thurs 11/30, tues 11/28 -- sat 11/25 before that.
Mostly I swim between 11am and 1 pm.
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Arrowhead shaped object going directly west in the wnw area of the sky, very fast. Sitting on my front porch around 10:45 PM on a Sunday night, I was looking towards the West North West direction in the sky when I briefly saw a Arrowhead shaped object flying west. It was flying at such a high speed that I couldn't turn on my phones camera to capture it.
At first I thought it was a shooting star but giving it a closer look it had a shape, glowing white edges around a Arrowhead shaped body. I could only see it for less than 10 seconds before it passed behind clouds. There was no sound, no sonic boom.
It seemed very large and far away, glowing as if it has recently entered the atmosphere.
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lights in line moving slowly to the north. Very clear night. lights all dimmed together and whatever it was no longer visible.
unfortunately I moved when taking photo. Streaks are because of that. The white lights in a line to right side of streaks is what I saw.
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No rocket launches on the 19th.
Florida UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 44 reported sightings | 14.92% of all reports |
Orb | 36 reported sightings | 12.20% of all reports |
Circle | 33 reported sightings | 11.19% of all reports |
Fireball | 24 reported sightings | 8.14% of all reports |
Changing | 20 reported sightings | 6.78% of all reports |
Other | 16 reported sightings | 5.42% of all reports |
Unknown | 15 reported sightings | 5.08% of all reports |
Sphere | 14 reported sightings | 4.75% of all reports |
Triangle | 13 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
Disk | 11 reported sightings | 3.73% of all reports |
Cylinder | 10 reported sightings | 3.39% of all reports |
Formation | 9 reported sightings | 3.05% of all reports |
Chevron | 8 reported sightings | 2.71% of all reports |
Oval | 8 reported sightings | 2.71% of all reports |
Rectangle | 6 reported sightings | 2.03% of all reports |
Cigar | 5 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Star | 5 reported sightings | 1.69% of all reports |
Flash | 4 reported sightings | 1.36% of all reports |
Diamond | 4 reported sightings | 1.36% of all reports |
Teardrop | 3 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Egg | 3 reported sightings | 1.02% of all reports |
Cone | 2 reported sightings | 0.68% of all reports |
Cube | 1 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2023 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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February | 40 reported sightings | 13.56% of all reports |
January | 37 reported sightings | 12.54% of all reports |
August | 33 reported sightings | 11.19% of all reports |
July | 32 reported sightings | 10.85% of all reports |
June | 27 reported sightings | 9.15% of all reports |
September | 24 reported sightings | 8.14% of all reports |
April | 22 reported sightings | 7.46% of all reports |
May | 21 reported sightings | 7.12% of all reports |
March | 16 reported sightings | 5.42% of all reports |
December | 16 reported sightings | 5.42% of all reports |
October | 14 reported sightings | 4.75% of all reports |
November | 13 reported sightings | 4.41% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2023 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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Sunday | 57 reported sightings | 19.32% of all reports |
Wednesday | 44 reported sightings | 14.92% of all reports |
Saturday | 44 reported sightings | 14.92% of all reports |
Monday | 44 reported sightings | 14.92% of all reports |
Friday | 40 reported sightings | 13.56% of all reports |
Thursday | 38 reported sightings | 12.88% of all reports |
Tuesday | 28 reported sightings | 9.49% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2023 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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07/28/23 | 9 reported sightings | 3.05% of all reports |
02/27/23 | 8 reported sightings | 2.71% of all reports |
01/11/23 | 7 reported sightings | 2.37% of all reports |
04/30/23 | 7 reported sightings | 2.37% of all reports |
09/03/23 | 6 reported sightings | 2.03% of all reports |
Florida UFO Sightings From 2023 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 | 150 reported sightings | 50.85% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 48 reported sightings | 16.27% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 30 reported sightings | 10.17% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 26 reported sightings | 8.81% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 23 reported sightings | 7.80% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 18 reported sightings | 6.10% of all reports |
All Florida Cities with reported UFO sightings in 2023
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports were filed per city in Florida, in 2023
Other Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.