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Jacksonville, Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 283 UFO sighting reports in Jacksonville, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (45 reports, 15.90% of total).
- October is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (30 reports, 10.60% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (47 reports, 16.61% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (28 reports, 9.89% of total).
- 07/17/98 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 1.06% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (133 reports, 47.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Jacksonville, Florida
These Jacksonville, 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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Saw a bright orange object moving in the sky. It dissapeared eventually behind a cloud After recording, another one came by again While in my backyard, I noticed an orange object moving across the sky. It was definitely not an aircraft, but I thought maybe it was a meteor.
I began recording and it eventually disappeared behind a dark cloud. After, I turned around and a second object was flying in the same path and disappeared behind the same cloud. After looking back on the videos, you can see when I zoom in, that it is a circular orange object.
I really can’t comprehend what I saw.
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Could not see craft - 1st object was red - second object following in same path same size was orange From facing North . When I first saw the first object - it was in between trees and I assumed it was probably a helicopter . However, as I got a little better view as it moved, it noticed it looks large and just all red and it was not a clear type red color as would be expected .
There was no sound . It was moving relatively slow as a helicopter would . It took about 12 seconds to travel from first to last sighting - around 60 degrees to 80 degrees altitude angle .
It moved from north to south . Bearing at first sight was about 320 degrees - North being 0 degrees . As I was wondering about that, I saw a second object the same size moving the same speed in the same path .
This time I noticed it looked like a fire slightly darker and lighter orange radiation or flow . At one point it appeared that a small portion separated - similar to a spark or fragment . It remained illuminated for a couple of seconds .
I moved away from the trees and tried to observe the object for a longer time period and I noticed no sound at all . The environment was quiet . The object looked much too large to be light source from a regular aircraft .
It did not blink . It did not flare or flutter . It appeared to be fuzzy / blurry like a fire heat source that has subtle rapid slight variations in colors .
Could not tell how high in the sky it was because I could not make out any significant features other than the rather large glowing color . It wasn't bright for something under 1000 feet but it it was several thousand feet then it was bright and large . It was about the size of a large helicopter at 750 feet .
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Formation of Stars, that moved like missiles? We walked outside and we could see all the stars more than usual. On the left hand side of the Big Dipper, there was a formation of stars in completely geometrical vertical line once we started asking eachother if we were seeing the same thing it began to move still within a line formation but it appeared like they were missiles coming at us. We let off a firework or two once we realized they were coming towards us because we were outside for Labor Day.
Once we lit off two or three they stopped coming forward and got back into a line above our heads and then disappeared one by one. Now im not sure if this was starlink as there was a launch 3 hours after this happened but I doubt it due to the way they were moving like projectile missiles at us. i have seen starlink before and it was not like this.
We tried to video the event but it wasn't showing up in the video, the fireworks didnt even show up in the video. It was spooky.
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SpaceX launch from Florida.
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We saw a very bright object in the northwestern sky (at about 50-60 degrees from the horizon) The object looked like a very large, bright star but upon further inspection, it looked to be a completely stationary light-emitting object that was motionless. It stood out brightly over the stars. I snapped 4 photos with my Google Pixel 7a and upon zooming the images, it appears that the object is actually structured.
Or, if what appears to structure around the light is a photographic artifact, I would like to know. I am attaching 2 of the 4 photos (as well as the enlarged versions).
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bright fluorescent, orange, oddly shaped lit up like an active fire slowly dam down after probably two minutes. I was walking outside to my car and looked up and saw this abnormally, large, shining, bright fluorescent, orange light, it shined, as if it were an active fire. It was higher than the airplanes, and the only movement it had was the activity of its lights.
I could not tell whether or not it was stationary, but if it was not, it barely moved. The activity of the lights did not stop, but during the two minute duration, it started to get dimmer. Soon enough, the light dimmed all the way off, as if you just turned off a lightbulb, the light took a second to completely go away, and it was just slightly bigger than planes, and I could tell it was not a plane because the center of it was brighter than the rest, as if the it was on fire or something, but it was not a star because this object was a very fluorescent orange, a very Crayola crayon orange, and much larger than a star.
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multiple beings eyes glow with blue light projected from eyes finger lights a orange color they fly and cloaking abilities also many or I live in a tent in the woo Woods at night they surround my tent and seem to hover in the windows kind of a weird floating sense blue light projects from their eyes they also have a orange colored light in their hand they have clothing ability to look like whatever they are standing by when you shine a flashlight on them they disappear the only way you can see them is with the lights out and there's always orbs present where the beans are the orbs shine very bright white light and that's how you can see the beings outline with the light they cast a shadow on the tent as your everyday alien big head black eyes I looked through binoculars in the daytime and clear as day a light green colored alien big head black eyes every night for the last 3 weeks they have been stalking my tent they hide when they see us when we come out they run when we come in there on you can hear them walking with you walking down the trail seem to speak human they whisper to each other I heard one of them talking in a frog-like town they pretend to be frogs they pretend to be Birds they whistle I smacked one through the tent with a stick and it made a cry like a rat at first I thought they were eating the rats and then I realized it was them making the squeaking sound there are multiple orbs flying around big giant size of a volleyball spinning stopping spending the other direction and dimming and turning completely off I have a video and they also make the kind of sound that the Jetsons cartoon car makes like electric bubble sound.
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Game camera picked up a bright light moving left to right with audio that sounds rich with information to me. Unlike any audio before. Nothing like the audio/video recorded on this game camera has never been seen or heard before since being on 10 acre property around 2008.
No light like on the video has ever triggered the camera to start recording and no unexplainable audio like it has ever been heard either. The audio needs detailed analysis for what it might be.
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Blinking light of very slow duration in the upper atmosphere or geostationary orbit. I’m hoping for some input on these and my gut says they’re some sort of satellite using an instrument that very briefly emits visible or IR light. I view the sky with very high-specification White Phosphor night vision 3-5 times a week.
I use a dedicated video recorder that degrades the image somewhat but is the best solution I’ve found for recording through a night vision device. I watch the sky often enough that I’ve become quite skilled at identifying mundane objects: primarily satellites and how they reflect the below-horizon sun. The objects I describe below and have provided video of do not appear to be reflecting the sun on as they spin and they do not follow an orbital path.
They appear to be geostationary or moving extremely slowly. What I’ve detected are “blinks” coming from an extremely high altitude, likely above the earth’s atmosphere. I have seen them at night (from 8pm to 11pm is my usual viewing time) and in the pre-dawn hour (5am to 6:15ish).
I have seen them while facing Northeast, West, and South as these are my usual viewing areas. I don’t typically face sue North but may do so for the sake of additional data. Most “blinkers” are so dim they’re difficult or impossible to see on video but I see them clearly through my night vision device.
The bright one in the video I’ve linked was, by far, the brightest I have seen. All of them blink at a regular interval but the interval varies. So far, the intervals have been 17 seconds, 31 seconds, 48 seconds, and 1:17 seconds.
Those intervals are just for the ones I’ve watched long enough to start counting in my head. Another data point that indicates they’re not reflecting the sun: in some instances, I have been staring at one area of the sky for over a half hour before the blinks start and after approximately 10 minutes with no indication of movement across the sky, the blinks stop. Satellites reflecting sunlight don’t behave that way.
The video I’ve linked happens to be the first time I’ve seen 2 blinking at the same time in the same area. Usually, I only see a single blinker. In the video, I first see the bright blinker at 0:13 in the lower left of the night vision tube, I then turned my attention to it and the bright blink is in the middle of the frame.
At 2:08, the second blinker starts to the left, much dimmer than the initial one. If necessary, I can provide time stamps for every blink. Also, if it’s preferable for me to send the video directly, I can do that.
The only editing I’ve done is slight cropping and I had to merge 2 clips as my recording device chops video into 5 minute segments. If any investigator would like to see them in person more clearly, I welcome a visit. I see them every session.
https://youtu.be/6VDefldh4N0.
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2 orange fireballs flying parallel to each other then progressively fading out. My husband and I were driving when we noticed what looked like 2 orange fireballs in the sky. I did not see them first appear, but just happened to look up and saw them.
We stopped the car and got out to get a better look. They were flying west toward Cecil Field, parallel to each other/ side-by-side, at the same rate of speed. They appeared to be flickering slowly, getting dim and then bright again, but they were also going up and down slightly, almost like the were floating or bouncing on the wind.
like they were dancing. Then the one to my right dimmed and went out completely. After maybe 15 more seconds the other dimmed and went out.
Since it was late at night and the sky was dark I could not tell if there were any objects in the sky after their lights went out. They were not aircraft, because there were no other lights or even a craft seen. There was also no sound.
They did not behave like flares or skydivers with flares. They were not falling, but flying straight ahead, keeping the same altitude and same rate of speed.
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Definitely not a plane , maybe a satellite but it just wasn't moving like a satellite or any meteor I've ever seen. It looked similar to a satellite but it was not on a trajectory like I've seen in the past it as well came into visibility in a point of the sky at random we're if it was a satellite or something I should have seen it from one horizon to another typicaly idk it just seemed different, idk how to explain it made me nervous with all this shit with china going on.
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Metallic Cube rotating on all axis reflecting light dropping tear drops shapes below it I was taking my dog outside in my backyard on a crystal clear day when I noticed to the north of me something metallic reflecting light in the sky about 500-1000ft above me. It looked like a metallic cube one second, a sphere another, then changed or morphed into several geometric shapes while reflecting light from its different axis it was spinning on. I got my phone and started to record it.
It traveled north to west to south. As it was traveling north to west it looked like it was dropping perfectly symmetrical or geometric white tear drops, looked kinda like Pac Man pellets. As it traveled south it shot up probably 3-4000ft kept spinning and it either vanished or my phone wasn't able to focus on it.
It made no sound. It looked like a 3 dimensional metallic cube/sphere morphing, reflecting light off all axis it was spinning from. I have four family members that are pilots (private and military) and they don't know what it is.
I honesty don't think it was a weather ballon, or drone, or plane, or helicopter. It blinked in and out of existence while it was rotating on its axis reflecting light. The two videos are the originals and were shot with an iPhone X at 4k.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions.
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Metallic cube, spinning on all axis, reflecting light and changing shape, dropping tear drops underneath Metallic Cube rotating on all axis reflecting light dropping tear drops shapes below it October 21, 2022, at 12:31 in Jacksonville Florida. Recorded with an iPhone X. I was taking my dog outside in my backyard on a crystal clear day when I noticed to the north of me something metallic reflecting light in the sky about 500-1000ft above me.
It looked like a metallic cube one second, a sphere another, then changed or morphed into several geometric shapes while reflecting light from its different axis it was spinning on. I got my phone and started to record it. It traveled north to west to south.
As it was traveling north to west it looked like it was dropping perfectly symmetrical or geometric white tear drops, looked kinda like Pac Man pellets. As it traveled south it shot up probably 3-4000ft kept spinning and it either vanished or my phone wasn't able to focus on it. It made no sound.
It looked like a 3 dimensional metallic cube/sphere morphing, reflecting light off all axis it was spinning from. I have four family members that are pilots (private and military) and they don't know what it is. I honesty don't think it was a weather ballon, or drone, or plane, or helicopter.
It blinked in and out of existence while it was rotating on its axis reflecting light. The two videos are the originals and were shot with an iPhone X at 4k. Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions .
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Metallic Cube floating through backyard on camera I was taking my dog outside in my backyard on a crystal clear day when I noticed to the north of me something metallic reflecting light in the sky about 500-1000ft above me. It looked like a metallic cube one second, a sphere another, then changed or morphed into several geometric shapes while reflecting light from its different axis it was spinning on. I got my phone and started to record it.
It traveled north to west to south. As it was traveling north to west it looked like it was dropping perfectly symmetrical or geometric white tear drops, looked kinda like Pac Man pellets. As it traveled south it shot up probably 3-4000ft kept spinning and it either vanished or my phone wasn't able to focus on it.
It made no sound. It looked like a 3 dimensional metallic cube/sphere morphing, reflecting light off all axis it was spinning from. I have four family members that are pilots (private and military) and they don't know what it is.
I honesty don't think it was a weather ballon, or drone, or plane, or helicopter. It blinked in and out of existence while it was rotating on its axis reflecting light. The two videos are the originals and were shot with an iPhone X at 4k.
Please feel free to reach out if you have any more questions. If anyone has any software you can zoom in and stabilize would be appreciated. You can pinch and zoom with viewing the video on a phone.
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Cigar shaped craft no sound, bright, nothing carrying it, began to move when I started filming and faded out into thin air Saw a cigar shaped object, no clouds, no sound, did not appear to be a drone, it was bright and as I started to film, it began to move to the left and began to fade, it then faded into thin air, no smoke or residue or anything.
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5 blacked out aircraft in perfect formation flying north to south at approximately 500 feet at a speed of around 150 - 175 kts Firstly, I don't believe in UFO's, ancient aliens, and all that; however, as an air traffic controller, retired Air Force, and commercial rated pilot I am fairly confident on how to identify an aircraft. At approximately 2000 hours while watching my dog do her thing, I noticed (briefly) 5 chevron shaped objects that were blacked out but gray in color moving at a moderate speed at or below 500 feet traveling North to South in a perfect V-formation. They were without strobes and position lights and lacked any noticeable sound.
There were no vehicles driving by that would have illuminated structures casting a shadow into the sky (the sky was partly cloudy at the moment; few clouds that were visible); geese that fly in formation always make noise while in flight but there was no noise and no jagged formation movement.and, I rarely have seen/heard geese flying at night. I know what I saw, and these were definitely objects that could not be classified and definitely were not drones of any kind.
Although close to an airport, I do know that these objects were not an aircraft; at least not listed in Jane's book.
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Unusual and perfectly quiet unknown object with pink/red faint lights We were walking about our neighborhood a few weeks ago, it was about 8:30-9:30 PM EST. The sky was perfectly dark and it was quiet. My partner mentioned he saw something above us – looking up, it took a moment to see the faint lights.
We were unable to make out the shape of the object or if there was one or multiple. However, the faint lights were reddish, it seemed like a row of lights were side by side floating in a long line. It seemed pretty close to us, and initially we thought it was still, then realized it was floating, moving very slow.
We watched for about 5-6 minutes and then it was gone. We went about our night and then got busy with life. However, I went online tonight to see if anyone else saw this and wanted to know what it might be.
What was odd was how quiet it was being that it looked like something that spanned maybe 20-40 ft. I ran across this site and would love to know what it was. I don’t assume it was an alien yet would really like to satisfy my curiosity.
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I was taking an early morning walk when I noticed it I sighted this object with another that looked like they were almost playing tag. The maneuvers the one particular had phenomenal aerobatics and constant zig zagging. My phone camera didn’t pickup as much as the naked eye.
I watched till they finally went out of sight at almost 0450 hrs.
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I noticed a shiny metal silver object sitting static in the sky then dissappear then reappear 5 or 10 miles farther away than the fi I noticed a shiny silver metallic object sitting static in the sky then dissappear then reappear 5 or 10 aerial miles farther away than the first position in a matter of 5 or 6 secs but not as florescent as the first appearance which after a few secs it disappeared again for good Sterling silver had nothing on the beauty of this object it was truly amazing! .
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Witness three objects hovering in the sky for a period of two hours this morning in Jacksonville Florida. At first it was only two one of them was very bright and I thought it was a shooting star and then I saw a second one they were covering and moving in different directions but slowly at the very end I saw third very bright light appear in between the trees and start moving in the same manner. Around 658 I witnessed an aircraft flying in the same direction as the objects I had seen.
I did call and report this to 911. Dispatch confirmed there were no aircraft in the area.
Jacksonville, 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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Light | 45 reported sightings | 15.90% of all reports |
Fireball | 32 reported sightings | 11.31% of all reports |
Triangle | 30 reported sightings | 10.60% of all reports |
Circle | 28 reported sightings | 9.89% of all reports |
Sphere | 20 reported sightings | 7.07% of all reports |
Unknown | 14 reported sightings | 4.95% of all reports |
Oval | 13 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
Other | 13 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
Disk | 12 reported sightings | 4.24% of all reports |
Formation | 9 reported sightings | 3.18% of all reports |
Changing | 9 reported sightings | 3.18% of all reports |
Flash | 7 reported sightings | 2.47% of all reports |
Diamond | 7 reported sightings | 2.47% of all reports |
Rectangle | 7 reported sightings | 2.47% of all reports |
Chevron | 7 reported sightings | 2.47% of all reports |
Cigar | 6 reported sightings | 2.12% of all reports |
Cylinder | 3 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Egg | 3 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
Teardrop | 2 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
Delta | 1 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
Cube | 1 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
Jacksonville, 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 | 30 reported sightings | 10.60% of all reports |
December | 29 reported sightings | 10.25% of all reports |
July | 26 reported sightings | 9.19% of all reports |
February | 26 reported sightings | 9.19% of all reports |
June | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
April | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
March | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
January | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
August | 21 reported sightings | 7.42% of all reports |
November | 17 reported sightings | 6.01% of all reports |
May | 15 reported sightings | 5.30% of all reports |
September | 13 reported sightings | 4.59% of all reports |
Jacksonville, 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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Monday | 47 reported sightings | 16.61% of all reports |
Saturday | 47 reported sightings | 16.61% of all reports |
Friday | 41 reported sightings | 14.49% of all reports |
Wednesday | 41 reported sightings | 14.49% of all reports |
Sunday | 39 reported sightings | 13.78% of all reports |
Thursday | 37 reported sightings | 13.07% of all reports |
Tuesday | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
Jacksonville, 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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07/17/98 | 3 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
04/30/20 | 3 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
10/21/22 | 3 reported sightings | 1.06% of all reports |
03/07/22 | 2 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
02/20/08 | 2 reported sightings | 0.71% of all reports |
Jacksonville, 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 | 133 reported sightings | 47.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 47 reported sightings | 16.61% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 38 reported sightings | 13.43% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 25 reported sightings | 8.83% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 17 reported sightings | 6.01% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 17 reported sightings | 6.01% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Jacksonville, Florida
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