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Analysis of Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings in 2013
We analyzed all 4 UFO sighting reports in Gainesville, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance was "light" (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- June was the month with the most reported UFO sightings (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Friday was the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (2 reports, 50.00% of total).
- 12/03/13 was the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Sightings occured more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3 reports, 75.00% of total).
UFO Reports in Gainesville, Florida from 2013
These Gainesville, Florida UFO reports from 2013 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).
Full Report Text:
Very strange and interesting. Facing east around 1700, a distant dot with a trail behind it very high suddenly split into two pieces and fell apart. Yellow flash of light.
Similar to a space shuttle launch only very high and much more odd. lasted 1.5-2 minutes.
3 witnesses. Witnesses did not have camera, out in a field playing tag with an adult. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
Full Report Text:
Three lights in the sky that didn't look like plane On 09/09/2013 I was walking my dog. As usual, I looked up at the sky to look for constellations. I was out particularly longer today because I was so transfixed on Venus which was on the west horizon.
As any star watcher knows, the longer you look up at the sky, the more stars you can focus on. So, I was able to make out many constellations. Eventually, I turned my attention to the eastern side of the sky as it moved north to south.
I spotted a satellite a little before 9 pm and tracked it as it moved across the sky. I eventually lost it behind a building. Hoping to see it again, I moved to a clearer area, but unfortunately, I couldn’t find it again.
I scanned the sky again and saw, at approximately 9pm, heading in a southern direction, a very bright light. It was just as bright as Venus to the west. However, I knew that there was no star that bright on the eastern part of the sky, so I gazed at it a little longer.
Because of a tree right under it, I was able! to notice that this ‘star’ was moving. I was a little stunned, but then I told myself that it was probably a plane. So I watched it as it moved towards the south.
Eventually, the brightness faded and I saw that this bright light was made up of three smaller lights. The more it moved to the south, the less bright it became and the more I could make out all three lights. There were two in the front and then one a little, but not by much, dimmer light.
They formed a triangle, with the base being the front and the apex forming the tail. I thought that maybe it was a plane, but I stared and stared and tried to make out any beacons, or blinking, lights, but never saw any. If I know anything from watching the sky is that planes always have blinking lights.
So I followed this light, which seemed to be travelling in a linear path, but eventually I lost it behind the same building.
Full Report Text:
Ball of bright orange fire moving low across night sky At 9:23 pm EST, June 7, 2013, my husband and I were sitting on our patio in Gainesville, FL, looking at the stars. It was a fairly clear night. Suddenly we both saw a bright orange object move low across the sky, from SW to NE.
It was flying lower than a plane or helicopter. It seemed like an active flame (as in a fireplace) contained in some sort of transparent round, or cylindrical container. The fire was extremely bright orange in color.
My first thought was that it was some sort of roman candle, but there was no sound at all, and the object kept moving across, not down. There was no tail. We guess it was moving 35-40 miles per hour, and seemed to be about 200-300 feet above us.
The size, to our eyes seemed to be about about 1 foot x 2.5 feet in size, at the distance from which we saw it. It was low enough that I worried it would set fire to one of the tall pines.
After about 7-10 seconds, it went behind trees so we couldn’t see it any more. Neither my husband nor I have ever seen anything like this. I might describe it as a sort of flaming orange Japanese lantern, except the orange flame was intensely bright, and like fire, not an electric light.
Full Report Text:
Illuminating Orange-Red glow, beautiful that flew so low. Hi, my name is ((name deleted)) I’m from Gainesville, Florida. On 3/29/2013 approximately between 8:45pm and 9:00pm I and five others witness UFO’s in the beautiful night sky which allowed a clear view of what we were watching.
As me my girlfriend Holly and friend Rich finished assembling of our unborn child’s crib. All three of us went outside to say goodbye to Rich, as Rich stepped down the stairs and off the stairway leading to the apartment he noticed something in the sky that was unfamiliar. So he called me off the porch down the steps to see as well.
As my friend Rich fumbled with his phone to video this amazing event, I step off the porch solid onto the pavement soon after Rich, I immediately looked straight up into the sky and the first thing that I saw was about four glowing, almost egg oval, orange red objects in the sky above all four Illuminating, three in a row and one on the side accelerating quicker than the others moving towards the front of th! e others and eventually 5 or 6 seconds later to lead what it appeared to some sort of straight line formation. They also made no noise at all like it was a defining moment in life were everything goes silent until that special event is over. A second after witnessing that I my girlfriend and Rich are all now on the pavement observing this breathtaking and phenomenal event witnessing at least 6 more UFO’S behind the first group in a less organized way than the first four.
After two minutes into observation of this event, my girlfriend called her mother, sister and brother in-law witness this event as well. As we all observed the UFO’s in the night sky for about 2 ½ to three minutes Rich finally got the video up and started recording the night sky while the UFO’s passed through at a very slow pace almost as the speed of a blimp illuminating an orange-red fire color as they go. These UFO’s had a very low altitude <as if I can reach out and touch one> they were moving g! eometrically perfect traveling SE.
As these UFO’s slowly moved! about w e all talked and enjoyed the beauty of or neighbors getting out for an ole stroll in the park –it was beautiful and enlightening. When the UFO’s started disappearing out of sight their altitude went higher from a straight line and then a swooping upwards motion off the straight line altitude up and out of sight like they went through some kind of door or something because they vanished into thin air. This whole event was about 5 to 6 minutes from initial sight of the UFO’s, taking place in SE Gainesville approximately between 8:45pm and 9:05pm on 3/29/2013.
I hope that someone can explain this event, because this event was way out of the ordinary. Thank you for taking time out to view this report hoping that it’ll be helpful and enlightening to some, thanks once again. Sincerely, ((name and e-address deleted)).
Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Egg | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings From 2013 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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June | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings From 2013 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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Friday | 2 reported sightings | 50.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Monday | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings From 2013 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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12/03/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
03/29/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
09/09/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
06/07/13 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Gainesville, Florida UFO Sightings From 2013 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 | 3 reported sightings | 75.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
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