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Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 17 UFO sighting reports in Dade City, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (3 reports, 17.65% of total).
- Sunday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (4 reports, 23.53% of total).
- 2012 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 17.65% of total).
- 02/19/13 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 5.88% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (6 reports, 35.29% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Dade City, Florida
These Dade City, Florida UFO reports are 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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Ufo above Northern Dade City Florida Ufo in North sky. Altitude above clouds and aircraft. Hovering, moved southeast then back toward due north.
Shape has changed from sphere to oval continuously. As if its slightly rotating. Though it was a weather ballon but has been seen continuously for 6 + hours.
Contacted county sheriff who confirmed the sighting and has not identified it.
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Strange bright pulsating light looks like a orange ball inside the light pulsating.
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Seen a blinking light moving extremely fast across the sky. Made several sharp turns And then was quickly out of viewing range. It was quiet and much faster than a plane or jet.
I am current commercial pilot and ex Air Force Pilot.
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Bright white light covered surface object moving very slowly towards northwest At approximately 10 pm, 5/27/18, my wife and I departed a relative’s residence in San Antonio, FL, to return to our home 6 miles to the east in Dade City, FL. As I stepped out I noticed what I thought was a very bright star, brighter than any other stars in the night sky. I commented how bright it was to my wife and two relatives.
We began to question if the object was a star, and noted that the object was moving very slowly. One of the relatives got their binoculars and each of us used them in an effort to identify the object. Each of us said the object appeared to have some type of very bright white lights surrounding its entire surface, with my wife’s sister describing the lights as being arranged in a diamond pattern.
We continued watching the object for about 5 minutes and then my wife and I headed home. Upon arriving home 15-20 minutes later, I looked toward the west and spotted the object. It was moving very slowly toward the north, at about 40-50 degrees above the horizon.
I attempted to photograph the object using a telephoto lens, however, without the aid of a tripod the photograph is not sharp, and is not a good representation of what 4 of us observed. I watched the object until it disappeared beyond the horizon.
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Two people along with my self was looking south in the sky and saw an extremely brite light in the sky that was not moving.along with this we saw numerous very small red lights moving very rapidly around the bigger white light. The small red lights or dots seemed like they were darting from different points in the sky… Very strange to have witnessed this tonight.
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A Giant ball of Light falling in the Northern sky down to the Earth. I was watching TV and looked out our sliding glass doors to the North and saw a GIANT ball of Light Falling to the ground. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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On Clinton Avenue, south of Dade City, I observed 12 round, orange lights traveling in a straight line from SW to NE, making no sound. I was traveling west on Clinton Avenue just south of Dade City when I noticed a cluster of about 5 round, pinkish-orange lights that seemed to hang in a cluster in the sky like a constellation. I thought it was a strange color to be in the night sky, so when I got closer to where they were nearly over me, I pulled the car onto a side road and got out to watch them.
I was amazed to see that there were many more coming and that they were traveling on a diagonal from southwest to northeast. I counted 12 altogether. The last one tagged along quite a bit behind the others.
I saw it come up over the horizon in the distance, and although it was far behind, it flew at the same speed as the others. None of the “vehicles” made any noise whatsoever, and they all stayed at the same altitude all the way, which was lower than the small aircraft in the sky at the time. They were obviously on a mission, moving in a straight line but then disappearing into what seeme! d to be nothingness.
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The craft should still be there due to the damage that is visible! As a past-time I use the Google Earth program to scan the earth's land and waters for things that appear to be anomalies or unusually symmetrical in shape. On 9-3-12 as I was scanning coastal waters and saw an unusual item that caught my attention. When I zoomed in to the sea floor, the item had several symmetrical features that peaked my interest.
I made a close-up image capture of the item with Google's snapshot feature and emailed it to myself. I knew right away that this was something significant due to it's totally unfamiliar shape and features. Using my Corel Paint Shop Pro-Photo X-2 software I was able to adjust the satellite image and lighten and darken areas to get a more acceptable image.
I am including the original image I downloaded from Google Earth and the enhanced images so you can see that they are still the same image, just enhanced for clarity. I will also include an image with the reflective surfaces highlighted in green due to some people having a hard time distinguishing the item from the sea floor. I have reported this find to Earthfiles.
com, MUFON, Ground-Zero, Coast to Coast and now NUFORC. I am reporting this to as many places as I can and as quick as I can to make sure that the image and knowledge that it is still there is not hushed up. After eliminating the water surface effect I was able to see that the craft had originally been perched on the edge of the plateau in the upper right of the image.
It appears that the edge broke away and the craft then slid to the sea floor. The halo effect around the craft is due to the displacement of the floor sand and sediment. After many enhancements to the original image I can see that this craft is severely if not fatally damaged.
The Google Earth map for this area is the National Geological Survey map dated 2012. Please contact me for the coordinates if you are interested in pursuing an investigation into this.
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2 stars moving in the sky & more I saw 2 stars moving high and deep (not so deep but deep) in the sky, the movement were more like in a vertical direction than horizontal (much more vertical, but not totally vertical) Both stars were moving like one of them wanted to take position where the other one was (Like they were switching positions) But it never looks like they were about to crash or something like that, it looked more like they were switching area or territorial position more than a perfect taking position one over the other. One of them positioned in the place where the other one was (like i said territorial position not the exact position) The other one that looks it was about to do the same, it didn't (Both stars were moving at the same time, this part of the event had a duration of 3-4 seconds) Once one of the stars took the territorial position over the other one, stops moving. The other one took territorial position of the other one almost at the same time (Or at the same time, hard to say) didn't stop moving, this one kept moving and position it self at the other side of the sky (Like if i am with my arms opened this second star moved from one of my hands to my other one over my head, keeping the proportions and it wasn't exactly a 180 degrees move, thats the best way i can explain it) This star moved extra 9-10 seconds after the other one stops, so in total it moved around 12-14 seconds) I have to say, that the apparent switch it was more like a discovering surprise, when the other star m! oved like that i really freaked out.
So, this event took like 12-14 seconds. After that both stars stopped moving, i took some seconds (less than a minute probably) to see where these stars where located then look for another witness and also my camera. I told my friend what i saw, and he told me "i believe you and i don't want to go outside" so i took the key of my car and looked for my camera that i had inside my car) Then came back to the place i saw the events (All of this probably took me like 90 seconds) I came back, and this is what freaked me out some more: While looking for the stars in the places i saw them stop from moving when i left, i found them real easy because that was the moment i realized they were not regular stars.
They were changing colors from blue to red (being blue the predominant color, sometimes when turning from blue to red i could observe like a regular white bright light, but i didn't observe this every time so i don't know if that is an optical illusion or my eyes were tired at some point) The object that moved for only 3-4 seconds were in the same location when i came back with my camera, but the other one didn't. I looked around and i didn't see it, but i saw this really bright star almost in the same location so i guess it was the same star (I am talking about stars because i don't know, i am trying to give myself my own explanations) This star wasn't turning colors, it was just a bright star (The most brightest in the sky that night, so bright that my camera got it) I don't check the video i took in the computer yet, but this bright star was able to appear in the film i took, not the rest of the stars or moving stars my camera was not able to capture them due to the dark and distance (I mean at that time, i think i have video recording of the star that actually change colors in the morning, but let me finish the story) It was under my perspective at the moment that the brighter star was the star i saw moving from 12-14 seconds. So, i kept focus in that star and the other one (They were in different extreme of my view of the sky, so i couldn't watch both at the same time) The other star was still there, not moving but turning from blue to red.
Then after about 40 minutes i started to realized that the brighter star in the sky was still the brightest in the sky but not like before so, i started looking in all around the sky, every place, every spot. After 20 minutes i can say with property that they were 5 stars not moving but turning from blue to red. Also (Because i discovered the event around 4.
30am) After the sky was a little less dark due to the rise of sun, i could detect that the star that i saw moving for 3-4 seconds was farer than i thought in the first place, and also that this star couldn't stay easily in the same place, it was like moving (A really hard to detect move) up and ! down, i couldn't appreciate that in the really dark sky, or maybe at that point my eyes were tired, or it was an optical illusion due to some more light in the sky (I don't know) Then in the morning, i was able to film the object that moved from 12-14 seconds, i still don't see it in my computer but i was able to see it in the screen of my camera when filming. Also you only will see a point in the sky so i don't expect to somebody to take that as evidence. Another important thing, during the 2 hours i was there (From about 4.
30am and 6.30am) I saw 3 falling stars, i saw falling stars before but always falling stars that born in the sky and die in the sky. These were falling stars that born in the sky and die in the horizon, like they were hitting the ground.
I saw this 3 times (The first time was about 12 minutes after i saw the 2 stars moving and closer to the one that only moved for 3-4 seconds (Yes, i freaked out) Around 6.30am i was able to see in the sky only, the brightest star i saw in the sky the whole night, the second brightest, the 2 stars that moved (There were stars brightest than the ones that moved but i wasn't able to see them, i don't know why i was still able to see the star that moved if they were not brighter than other ones that i couldn't see anymore, at this point i only could see them like a star not blue and red colors anymore) And i was able to see also 1 more of the stars that i didn't see moving, but i recognized earlier turning blue and red. Then i decided there is no more reason for being there anymore, and since i was being eaten by mosquitos for 2 hours i went inside the house.
I have to say that, i am an industrial engineer, i don't do drugs, i wasn't drinking that night or the night before (or the one before that one) And i am not the kind of person who believes stories. I am pretty much a city guy, i have been working in a project in this farm, the sky looks different here as it looks in the city, so maybe what i saw it is normal (I will be looking in the internet more information about what i saw) And maybe by posting here, any of the staff can send me an explanation. I will be watching the skies in the following days at the same time to see if i get something again.
Ah yes, i went outside at 4.30am because the restroom that works is in the 2nd floor of the house, and i just went outside to use a tree instead since i was not in the second floor. ((NUFORC Note: We suspect a sighting of planets in the eastern morning sky.
PD)).
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6 round orange ball of light glide across the night sky in Dade city There were 6 orange balls gliding across the sky.All following the same path. One by one they began to disappear as they glided into a cloud.
They almost appeared to be on fire, or glowing. They were amaingly bright.
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4 Red-Orange Orbs appear, move rapidly and soundlessly, then flicker out. While walking my girlfriend out to her car she and I noticed my two dogs acting strangely and looking into the woods behind our property. Just then behind the tree line moving at a steady pace almost as if floating were two red-orange orbs followed at a distance by a third.
They did not move like any airplane I have ever seen they were moving at a steady pace but were drifting in a somewhat sideways motion while still moving forward, like fireflies sometimes do. The moon was full and the orbs appeared to be about 30 percent of its size. I sent my girlfriend inside to get my grandmother while I watched these three orbs sort of flicker out and vanish.
My grandmother came outside and as we were describing the three objects we saw to her a fourth one appeared and followed the same direction the other three had gone, we all three (my girlfriend, my grandmother and I) watched this last orb until it too flickered out. However this time as it the light flickered out! my grandmother and girlfriend said that they could still see it moving without the light and that it appeared triangular in shape. Please feel free to contact me.
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White-Green, Teardrop shaped light falling from the sky at approx 12:20 am in Dade City, FL. At about 12:20 am, my sister and I were driving home, when we saw a white-green object falling from the sky. It did not look like it was traveling in any particular direction, but falling straight down.
It looked relatively close, but when we tried to follow it, it was farther south than we thought. My first impression was that it may have been a plane crashing, but it just appeared to be an oddly shaped (almost like a teardrop) ball of light or fire falling straight down from the sky. It appeared to have a aura or haze around it, and a very short tail (if any tail at all.
) My sister and I were both witnesses to this event, but we did not see any crash or sign of destruction in the direction we watched the object fall.
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Dozens of orbs clearly seen cruzing in Pasco County, Florida. Dozens of Orbs December 19, 2008, 12:20pm Dade City, Fl On Friday I was working in my house. I had to make a trip out to my tool shed for some materials.
On exiting I looked up into a beautiful blue partly cloudy sky only to see dozens, I would say at least 75 to 100 metallic orbs headed from due east to due west. These orbs were quite easy to see so I had no need to run into the house for my binoculars. Rather than flying in formation they were spread out but in reference to each were fairly close in the group which was quite a many orbs.
Following behind broken away from the group was about 15-20 more. I had about a minute to examine these orbs as they went from about 60 degrees East to about 70 degrees West before they either went into or over clouds . Their size was about the size of a BB held in your hand.
They were all the same size and description. Their speed was as if they were on a Sunday drive and there was absolutely no noise. We are in the inbound path for Tampa International Airport and I could not help but notice that there was no action for a good while.
There was very little wind and the temp was about 78º. The orbs didn’t reflect very much light, that is to say that my vision was not hampered by glare, each was clearly visible. I was able so see them so well that I could tell that these objects were round orbs gliding smoothly through the skies, not birds, as I said, I could see them clearly.
Neither were they planes or ultra-lights or swamp gas. They were a mass of silent running genuine UFO. I shook for about thirty minutes after the sighting and waited for about an hour before calling the report in.
I wanted to get my thoughts together. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. We believe the source of the report may have been the gentleman we spoke with via telephone, but we have no way of being certain.
PD)).
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I often don't sleep well, so go outside at night to look at the stars. I noticed that there were some clouds to the southeast, but none anywhere else, which seemed odd to me. Just then, two classic saucer shaped objects, which seemed to be playing; zipping around each other, were moving at a very high rate of speed at the edge of the clouds.
I have seen many "ufo'" in my time, most of which I was accompanied by a friend, but never have I seen these. They were both "glowing" with blue on top and yellow on the bottom.illuminescant like.
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bright light-moved slowly over city for a couple of minutes then,at a high rate of speed, zipped away. To the northeast, a bright white light was seen, steady and non-moving. Then, I noticed that the light was becoming brighter and moving toward me.
I would estimate that it traveled about 2 miles to the southwest.it was moving every so slowly over downtown Dade City. Then, in a blink of an eye, it flashed and zipped off to the southeast and was gone.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the incident is approximate. PD)).
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a bright yellow object floating from the heavens. I was driving home from work as I approached a hill driving north on Pasco 41, I observed a bright yellow light to the west, it continued to drop to the earth at a slow speed, at about 300 feet, it remained stationary for a few seconds. Then it assended in a full circle and went north east at a high rate of speed, saw a red light in the center of its yellowish body.
I heard no noise from any engines during this period.
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While camping in the late 80's we had several encounters with a silent triangular object 300-400ft above our camp site My friend and I did a lot of camping near Silver Lake State Park just outside of Dade city in the 70's and 80's. All but a few of our sightings took place usually just after dark. This was just the first time that we saw something in that area.
After that on many occations we saw the same type (shape) of object. Also there was a round or oval object that we would see sometimes The triangular object was about 50 to 75 yards from tip to tip. I am 54 years old now, and at the time we were both employed at a hospitals in St.
Petersburg, Fl I (we) didn't want to sound crazy to everyone, specificlly to the places that we worked. I was a respiratory therapist and he was a LPN. We were both reciently divorced and did a bunch of camping during that time.
We told very few other friends about our sightings. Although after the first time it seemed that for about the next aprox. 2 years nearly we saw something that neither one of us could explain.
Anyway each time we saw these crafts they moved almost directly over our heads and made no noise that we could hear. But it seemed that one could feel like a presure or something when they were directly over head. I really don't know how to explain it.
They almost always moved from norhwest to southeast very low no more than 300 to 400 ft off the ground. We were both into model rocketry when we were younger and kind of used to judging height. We even tried shinning a spot light at them a few times but it didn't seem to do anything so we only did that a few times.
The bottom of the triangular craft was smooth and kind of (roundish). The round craft went bye much faster and was harder to make out. For a while we were camping sometimes 2 weekends a month and for that period of time we saw something almost every time we went up.
I wish I could tell you more but thats about it. After about 2 years they just stopped showing up. We both remarried and stopped doing so much camping.
As I said. I am 54 years old now and dying of liver disease so I really don't care what anyone thinks about me anymore. I was a very interesting time i my life and at least now someone else knows.
I don't have any photography but I will try and draw then scan and email the shape area map and direction to you. We did take a few pictures but my friend has since gotten very religious destroying the photos saying that it was the work of satan. I was his camera.
((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of the event is approximate. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous. PD)).
Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings 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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Circle | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Sphere | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Other | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Light | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Diamond | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings 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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October | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
December | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
July | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
February | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
November | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings 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 | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Saturday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Friday | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Tuesday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Thursday | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings 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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02/19/13 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
10/23/03 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
02/26/17 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
09/11/05 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
12/16/16 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings 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 | 6 reported sightings | 35.29% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 4 reported sightings | 23.53% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 3 reported sightings | 17.65% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 11.76% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.88% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Dade City, Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Dade City, Florida.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2020 | 2 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2019 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2019 |
2018 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2018 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2016 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 3 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2011 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2011 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2005 | 2 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2003 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 2003 |
1986 | 1 UFO Reports | Dade City, Florida UFO Sightings in 1986 |
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