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Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 20 UFO sighting reports in Okeechobee, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (6 reports, 30.00% of total).
- November is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 25.00% of total).
- Wednesday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (6 reports, 30.00% of total).
- 2013 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 15.00% of total).
- 03/02/05 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 10.00% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (9 reports, 45.00% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Okeechobee, Florida
These Okeechobee, 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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See 1 to 3 every evening between 7-9 PM moving very fast and too high to be planes flying erratically See sighting summary and a flashing "star" in the eastern sky. It flashes red, blue, green and yellow. Too high and fast to photograph.
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large round ball with light on in side . it seemed to get bigger and then smaller as if moving back and forth .
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4 silent objects at night each with 4 large red non-blinking lights moving east to west near Lake Okeechobee, Fl Took my dog outside about 10:00 pm Friday, 12/22/17 and saw 2 very dark red bright objects in the dark sky coming toward me east to west. There was no sound at all even though they seemed to only be as high as a small plane might fly. Each seemed to have 4 large red lights that did not blink.
The lights defined their shape, 2 behind 2 that almost touched. Could have been a square shape. One was a short distance from and a little ahead of the other, and not wavering from their path.
I watched them fly overhead until out of sight and then saw 2 more coming from the same direction appearing very much like the first 2 and moving in the same path. There were a few stars out and also a plane flying north to south so high it was barely visible. It probably took 4-5 minutes for each pair to move from first sighting to out of sight.
I found it amazing that there was no sound in the quiet night for such large objects. I retired after 27 years with the Okeechobee County Library System.
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I was sitting outside,with other family members, around a firepit, facing the rim of Lake Okeechobee. I looked up into the sky overhead and to my left. I saw a very, very faint extended oval shaped, blue ring, with white lights around the inner circumference.
It was traveling rapidly at approximately a 60 deg angle from the horizon over Lake Okeechobee. There were no drugs or alcohol present at the reporting sight.
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I saw a bright yellow light in the western sky flash 8-9 times as it traveled south and then it disappeared I have a lawn chair at the west edge of my property, the view from the chair is an open cow pasture of about 3-400 acres. I was walking the dogs around the permiter of my small 6 acre plot when I sat down and was looking at the night sky. I noticed a bright red star just above the horizon, the red star was located just south of due west, I guess it was SSW.
I then looked up and to my right now looking due west and higher on the horizon. I saw a bright yellow light in the western sky flash 8-9 times as it traveled from a northerly direction toward the south and then it disappeared. The light traveled along its course blinking off and on with its trajectory being illuminated, however the flashes were not timed, in other words the space between the flashes were not the same, the final flash indicated the object had traveled about 1/2 again the length of the prior distance between the prior flash.
I did not see an object just the flashing light. I told my wife the lights reminded me of the light you see on an EKG only this light was yellow in color not blue. Then it was just gone, no sound nothing.
There were no cows in the field, or if there were they did not respond to the light, also my dogs did not respond to the light. I did not have my phone on me, so I was not able to take a photo.
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Towards the east one bright light for a little while by itself then other flickering lights came with streaks of light falling from them approx 4-5 lights total.
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Orange fireballs in a pattern of three, winking out and returning in another location, repeatedly. While locking my gate at night, I saw what seemed to be an orange "burning" object in the sky, approximately 40 degrees above the horizon, and several miles away. I wondered if it could be an aircraft on fire.
The fireball did not move, then it winked out after seeming to flare up. It next appeared off to the south of its previous location, and winked out almost immediately, followed by another very brief appearance even farther to the south. It reminded me of how fireflies will light up in several different places as they travel.
20-30 seconds later it appeared farther to the north and much closer, repeating the previous pattern. Avon Park Bombing Range is located in that general direction, and I wondered if it might be something having to do with them. I did see tiny (much, much smaller) white flashing lights of aircraft in three different locations in this general area, however, these seemed much farther away, and flying in predictable patterns, that is to say, as normal flight patterns for aircraft in that area.
I drove several miles from my house then on my way to work, and saw these fireballs again in the same general area. Several people in this area have told me about the "Prairie Lights" of the Kissimmee Prairie area, but I had not seen them until now. I will call them UFOs simply because I have no idea what they actually are.
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bright Red and White pulsing light I was on bridge near rim canal over looking Lake Okeechobee riding my bike a bright red and white glowing light appeared in the sky to the north east of my position it was about a miles distance from me and about 1,200 to 1,500 feet in elevation. i took out my Biniculars and watched the glowing light pulsate repeatedly getting brighter with each pulse then it became a star in the sky and vanished. I proceeded to ride my bike down the road to the church pasture and saw the light appear again in the north eastern sky it was lower in elevation about 1,000 ft and not as bright i watch the pulsing begin but noticed that the light released several smaller bright white lights the main pulsing red and white light then dimmed down and faded away.
As i turned around to leave the pasture i came to the side of the church facing southeast and the light reappeared it was half a mile away and about 1,000 it was very bright it flashed red and light very bright then simply f! aded away. The duration of this event took place over 25 minutes and each time the lights appeared they lasted no more than a minute in duration. Note this is not the first time ive witnessed this and many people have been with me for these events on the average its almost a mightly occurance however when we have storms or lighting over the lake they dont appear.
I go out everynight and watch for these lights ive been observing them since november 2011 in greater frequency than in past years groups of us have watched strange behaviour from these lights in the past.
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three bright red lights over lake Okeechobee Was on way home when i noticed a bright glowing Red ball of light hoovering about 1 mile distant over lake Okeechobee. When i got home i could still see the light it was even brighter so i went and got Binoculars and my Green Laser. I returned to the front lawn and saw what appeared to be three brights together hoovering.
When i pointed the laser in their direction they vanished! i continued to observe the area for several hours after the event but they didnt return.
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Bright objects in sky. Watching object will traveling north east on hwy 78. Once turning on hwy 441 north watched for a bit longer (maybe 30 seconds) then object disappeared.
I witnessed a bright globe-shaped object over the Lake not but a week earlier (this occurred at night). These are the only times I have ever witnessed strange objects in sky.
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Flying white light faded into the sky I live in North Okeechobee County and was outside looking to the west when I seen a bright white ball of light. It started from the horizon and flew up and slightly south. I watched this light move at a constant speed.
As it got higher it started to fade and then disappeared. I searched the sky for the object trying to see if I could locate it anywhere else in the area I had last seen it. From the time I first viewed it to the point of it disappearing was about 10 seconds.
When looking for the object I noticed a new white light in the sky above the location where the other light appeared. I also noticed 3 smaller lights flashing below it flying north to south and south to north. These smaller lights flew seperately and independently.
They would disappear and reappear in a different location and flew slower then the first object. I watched the bigger light for about 30 minutes as the smaller lights flew under it. The bigger light did not seem to move at all.
After 30 minutes the bigger light faded to a smaller red light, still in the same location. The smaller lights disappeared one at a time just before the light turned red. The red light then disappeared.
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Many small lights and bright orange flashes. On November 19th 2009 at approx. 1940 (7:40 pm) my stepson called and he was telling me about some unexplained lights that he was observing southwest of his home.
He lives 5 miles NW of Okeechobee, Fl. I went outside of my home and began to look for the objects. I live 18 miles SE of Okeechobee, Fl, as we are rural there is a very low level of ambient light so I have an exceptional view of the night sky.
Because I didn’t know the brightness of the objects that my stepson was observing, I turned off my backyard and garage light. My stepson and I were talking on our cell phones for several minutes while I attempted to locate the small-lighted objects that he has been observing for at least 10 minutes. At about 1950 (7:50 pm) I was looking west northwest over my neighbors’ home, and I observed several small lights moving in an area roughly 20 degrees wide and thirty to forty degrees high and approximately 25 degrees above the horizon.
This corresponded to where my son-in-law was now looking. I was not able to determine the range or altitude of the small-lighted objects. These small-lighted objects were moving erratically and on several occasions when the lights came within close proximity to one another, I would see a very bright inverted tear shaped orange glow that would last for about 5 seconds.
During the time I was watching the group of small-lighted objects were working slowly in a northerly direction. Sometime during all of this I asked my wife to come outside and see what I was looking at. My wife was able to see three of the small-lighted objects but none of the bright orange glows appeared.
The activity that I observed continued for about 5-7 minutes then cease! d. All of the small lights disappeared and I never saw another of the bright orange glows. During the time that I was observing all of this activity I was communicating by cell phone to my stepson and he was observing exactly the same activity that I was.
I attempted to capture a few pictures on my cell phone camera but the movements were so erratic that I was unable to do so. Some observations that I had were: Small-lighted objects were flashing points of white light, the movements of the these objects were very erratic and of a type not consistent with any aircraft that I have ever seen. The lights didn’t appear to be following one another they closed on each other from a heads on attitude.
I didn’t see anything being emitted from these objects The bright orange glows were many times larger than the small-lighted objects and had no movement component to them. These glows all looked similar in shape and size; there were no trails from these glows in any direction. I also was watching the air traffic in the area.
I did not see any sudden course changes or any other abnormal flight patterns. Because we are in the center of Florida there is allot of air traffic transitioning the area at multiple altitudes and directions. After this light show was over, my stepson and I were talking about what we had just seen and I asked him what he originally saw that caused him to call me.
His statement is below: He had gone outside to sit with a couple of his friends. They were talking and he happened to look up. He noticed a “V” shaped formation of small objects moving from the south.
He continued to watch and then he saw another formation of the lights moving from the north. This second group of lights were scattered and not a discernable formation. The “V” shaped group moved past the scattered group and turned 180 degrees and that is when the orange glows began.
At this point he gave me a call.
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Huge-bright light in sky, subdues in a ball-like object hovering 1000 feet above my neighbors rooftop. On January 20th 2009, two other friends and I witnessed a UFO. My friends and I were sitting in my car in the parking area in front of my apartment.
My car was parked so that I was facing the road and the whole entire sky above it. It was a remarkably dark night, as we had just made a joke about it because we could barely see each other and we were sitting so close to one another. Then , out of nowhere, it seems like the entire sky lights up.
This massive bright light is all you can see. I had no problem at this point looking around the car and being able to see all the rather shocked faces. And then the light subdues but into this ball-like object that seems to be hovering about 1000 feet from my neighbors rooftop, never losing that intense light.
It stays there just about long enough for you to say “What in the world?. and then it just shoots of into the sky. I looked at the clock right after and it was 11:11pm.
I didn’t call the police, thinking they would most likely just think we were all crazy. I did happen to be watching a program on t.v.
and heard about this reporting center. This is my honest report.
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flame flying thought the air then disapire this morning about 1:30 am to 2am coming fron north to south with a flame coming off of it dont know if nasa shooting rocket off or what it was hoping you can help find out what i saw thanks.
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Bright white, wingless object, traveling silently at a high altitude Riding my bicycle home from work on Friday evening, along the Lake Okeechobee Scenic Trail, between US 441 and Taylor Creek. Observed a bright white object, high in the sky moving from SSE to NNW. No sound, bright white in color, seemed to be smaller in diameter in the middle than on the ends.
Bright cloudless sky, the sun was just setting, and it was high enough in the sky to be brightly illuminated by the sun. At first I thought it was an airliner, but could not see any wings, or any sign of jet exhaust. As I don't know what it was, I have to call it "unidentifed".
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There were three white lights on the corners under the object with a flat light grey bottom. This object first appeared as a shiny star South-East of me, growing bigger by the seconds,like a big bright yellow ball of fire with a flame behind it, headed towards me as I drove fast away from it. Then when I came into a lighted area with another Officer approaching me with his work vehicle, I noticed the bright object lift up into the sky appearing to have a flat light grey bottom, white lights in all three corners, clear sky with few stars around area, unidentifying object gliding and heading North-East, with no sound at all.
This all happened very suddenly. 'wish I had a witness to what I seen.
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There was a square object, blue, red, white lights on the 4 corners on the flat, lighted spider webbed bottom. I and one other Officer seen a bright light in the sky at first appearing to look like a star (but moving in the sky in our direction) until it went over the both of us. The object is as described as looking from the bottom view red, blue, white lights on the corners of the flat, spider webbed, lighted bottom with the different colored lights on each corner with a white front light in the direction toward the east coming from the west.
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there were 4 circular shaped objects hoovering in the sky. 3 of 4 were in a stair formation and the 4 was off to the side. The color of the objects looked like a fire color orange.
((NUFORC Note: Please see similar report from Moore's Landing, FL, for 02FE02. The sightings may be being caused by flares launched over the military firing range near Avon Park, FL. PD)).
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strange light in the sky, to high to be street light and to low to be aircraft I've always been skeptical about UFOs, until May 2001. I went to pick up my daughter from school around 6:00 P.M.
in Okeechobee and when we were coming back home to Kissimmee prairie it was dark. As I was about 2 miles from my camper trailer I saw a bright light hovering above the trees. I was not alone on this sighting; my three daughters were with me and they saw the light, too.
We were coming into the prairie and when I saw this bright light I slowed down; I wasn't sure what to make of it. I did know I had never seen anything like it before. It was dark and the only thing I could see was the bright light flashing down in the trees.
I knew it wasn't an airplane or helicopter because there wasn't any flashing colored light. This light stayed in one place until I got closer. When I got closer, about two blocks from it, the bright light turned off.
This scared me. I knew whatever it was had seen the lights of my car so I hurried up and went home to my trailer which was four blocks north of the light. When I got home I asked my husband if he'd seen the light and he said no, he was watching TV.
I asked him to come outside and when he did I told him what I saw. He said it was an airplane; he didn't believe me. While I was telling him about this bright light and looking in the same direction, the light came back on in the same place as before.
We watched it for about fifteen minutes in one spot but it was not moving or making any noise. It was too dark to see anything except this bright light which just stayed in one place. After about fifteen minutes the lights turned off.
I was really curious after this and stayed outside looking into the sky. Then, about five minutes from the time the light went off it reappeared north of my trailer over the trees again. This time it was moving slowly towards our trailer.
I'd say it was about three blocks north of us this time. This was getting really scary by now. I could feel the hair on my arms standing up.
We turned the lights on our car and the light in the sky went off. When the light reappeared for the third time it was a little further than before. This time it was over a cattle field.
I kept an eye on it and couldn't believe what I saw. I saw lights being shot down from the huge light in the sky. I heard the noise the light beam made.
I say "light beam" because that is the only type of noise I've ever heard like that. That was on TV, so I'm not too fond of saying that. If I could describe it any other way I would.
When we saw this we jumped in our car and went closer to where other people lived. In the prairie {Kissimmee} the houses and trailers are not close to each other and in 2001 there were no street lights and the roads were not paved. I'd say there were about twenty houses in that area at the time.
Around the area we were in we only had one neighbor who lived four blocks from us. The next day my three daughters went to school and asked our neighbor's kids if they'd seen the light and they said no, it was probably the military in the area. I'm from Louisiana and never saw such a thing before.
I wouldn't know if it was military or not but I do know for a fact if wasn't a helicopter or airplane, for helicopters and airplanes don't stay in one spot for a long period of time and they have colored flashing lights and this didn't. SO FOR ME AND MY FAMILY IT WAS A UFO {UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT}. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date of sighting is approximate.
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Close encounter 5th kind - CE5. This is a completely true, but amazing, experience, and I strongly feel it will interest you. It’s another strange thing that’s going on with some people, a twist of things happening in recent years, worldwide.
It was Wednesday, October 12, 1994. In what follows, a name is changed, withholding a man’s identity. Everything else is exactly as it happened.
That day around 9:00 p.m., we arrived at Okeechobee from our day's work in Boca Raton.
Okeechobee is a Seminole Indian name meaning, "Big Lake." Joe was with me. We are computer engineers developing an important product for a big client.
It was a difficult job. We needed a change of scene and he was glazed over too from the day’s problems. A ride in the country would give us a change to rest our heads.
Escaping our noisy hotel was part of the answer, so driving eighty-five miles to Big Lake was welcome. The beach is usually good but typically it’s a parking problem. At Okee, there’s cool, clean, air with a chorus of wild creatures to hear all around .
Relaxing. There‘s no stress or tension. What a place! We arrived with just time enough to fix a drink and walk outside by the rim canal.
It felt so fine being there on a perfectly clear cool moonless night. The air was wonderful and stars were bright. Looking to the right we immediately saw a light coming.
It was over the canal about 800-feet in the air a quarter-mile away. Something close was flying our way. I was thinking, "This ought to be interesting.
" Little did I know! It seemed like a helicopter by its speed and height, with a big light under it. At the same time there was a twin engine plane flying out over the lake, just behind it, about two miles away. The plane was noisy and gaining altitude from take off at Okeechobee Airport.
So, it’s natural that I wouldn’t hear a helicopter coming our way. Only it wasn’t a helicopter, not a plane either, and it’s coming along in the air too quietly. We’re near Route 441 with some distant sounds of traffic going by.
But I couldn’t hear this thing coming and it’s getting close. We saw a steady bright glow under it, like a big searchlight playing into the canal. Whatever it is, it had no flashing lights of any kind.
But all aircraft are required to have strobe lights at night. As it came from behind a nearby tree into clearer view, we saw it’s a brightly lit disk and still moving toward us. I said, "What the hell is that?" Joe was glued.
I just watched without a thought and looked hard trying to decide what it was. The disk was still flying toward us, slowly, maybe 20-mph. It flew the same way over the canal until about 300-yards away.
Then it went gradually higher to about 400-yards, almost over head. It’s changing direction slightly now, moving to the opposite edge of the canal and over a point about 100-yards in front of us. It slowed, descending as it went by.
It’s absurd not being aware that it’s a UFO but it never entered my mind. A UFO is exactly what we saw, the real thing. I never saw one before and this one is really close.
It didn’t get closer than 200-yards to where we stood. As the craft flew by, it was perfectly circular, about 35-feet in diameter give or take five. At that height it looks bigger than, say, a full moon rising on the horizon and it’s brighter.
As it moved it made a bright white glow with a hint of yellow, bright but without a strain. easy on the eyes. No sound, I said – it was totally silent.
By then there’s no noisy plane nor any road traffic being heard, no more distractions anywhere. The craft was coming down, low, slowing to a stop and moving east 100-yards toward Nubbin Slough. In five seconds, it flew from high over head to where it’s hanging in the air over the levee.
We saw it clearly, parked a little above the levee up a 20-degree angle. As it descended the disk-glow was harder to see the lower it came, because the angle was smaller and the glow diminishing. It came to a stop, suspended motionless in the air 100-feet past the ridge of the levee toward the lake, a distance of about 250-yards from us.
The craft became dark. Two small soft lights appeared, one each side, square light images although not big as windows. They are reference lights to help us with what happened next.
It’s on edge-view and I saw its silhouette, because there’s a lot of light in the haze behind it from the well lit power plant 15-miles! away. The plant was under construction around the clock and covered with lights for the night shifts. It looked like a vaudeville straw hat on edge view.
The upper part of this thing was dark but showed a rectangular silhouette, flat on top, and not as wide as its base where we had seen the glow. The top is a shallow wide cylinder shape. The top part is three times thicker than the base and eight times wider than thick.
The base is thinner and a third wider than the upper part.maybe 15% wider on each side than the top. I looked for how the base is connected to the top, curved or straight, but couldn’t see it.
It’s a lame description but it was dark. When the craft came low and to a stop, I was thinking, "Now I will see what they’re doing!" Without thinking UFO I knew they weren’t like us inside. This was really different.
It amazes me, not realizing the things I know. Like, how might I know ostensibly never having seen one before? Did they send me subconscious thoughts already? And I mean, Lake Okeechobee is a military operating area, and there are rumors we may have flying craft of similar appearance. But this craft is nothing of ours.
No question, this technology is special. Very quickly after this thought, something happened to me. I didn’t remember it clearly for weeks.
What I remembered instead was, that at about this point we turned and went into the house for a few minutes, then came out to look for it again. It’s still visible, glowing over the levee about two miles down, past Nubbin, toward the southeast and Indiantown. Again, we turned away with it still in view and went back into the house.
The clock read 9:45. Wasn't that something? Joe said, "Yeah, you know, some things just happen." He couldn’t function either, both of us were subdued.
I was drained. Sitting in the house, I was tired and empty of thought. I just couldn’t put two thoughts together.
I went outside looking at things again and found my vision was different. I could see really well in the dark but soon came back inside. We immediately turned in for the night without a word.
Next morning it’s never mentioned by either of us, nothing. Joe never brought up anything about it, not ever. It’s awhile before I came around to it with him.
Months later after remembering most of what happened, I phoned Joe about what he recalls. He said Nothing. Months after that I sat him down and probed him to see if he remembered them talking to us.
All he’d say was, "Maybe they were talking to you." And with a grin, he said, "They found no intelligent life here and moved on." It seems all he remembers was seeing a ‘fast moving’ light.
' It’s a clue .maybe he’s on different ‘time’ than me in this experience. I’d been thinking He simply didn’t want to remember.
And he doesn’t want to talk about it at all. At least he knows they came, I’m thinking. He’s my witness.
We saw the most incredible event in anyone's life experience, uncommon in all human experience, yet we lost interest in it? We turned our backs, headed inside and simply went to bed. Nothing like this could happen in normal circumstances. But there’s certainly nothing normal about these circumstances.
Something very different happened that October night. After they left us, I was mentally washed out, tired and just about dysfunctional. It’s the chance of a lifetime for two curious people like us, who are no pedestrians to technology, and who earned educations in four scientific disciplines between us.
We could’ve done much more investigating at the time, because there were binoculars, a camera, and a 2½-inch refracting telescope, all within five yards of the door from where we stood. None of it mattered. We simply couldn’t function acting on our own will.
We had no initiative, none, zero. Best I could do was look and wonder. After weeks of trying, memory and the details began coming.
I did it mostly while driving to work with plenty time to think. Eventually I got nearly everything back. Here’s what happened.
We watched as the craft came lower, stopped, and became darker. Two small lights appeared. The craft was parked in the air just inside the levee of Big Lake maybe as close as 200-yards away.
As we watched, something hit me, a marvelously happy feeling and I knew at the time it was coming from the craft. I thought THIS is a really good sign whoever they are. The happiest feeling of anticipation had suddenly come upon me.
I knew to expect something wonderful to happen between them and me. They were doing something to affect my mental state giving me a wonderful feeling of euphoria. It‘s nothing like anything I’ve ever felt, a totally joyful happy feeling beyond description.
I was so glad they were here and understood, waiting for something. I dared not move a muscle although knew I wasn’t restrained. Whatever came next I wanted to be part of it.
Next, I was sensing a projection of thought to me, when soon thought-speech appeared in mind in my own idiom. But there’s some fumbling, because I first heard some unintelligible words and a series of growls. I thought It’s growling at me.
But it definitely seemed like a recording coming up to the wrong speed. Sure, as in, they don’t know how to operate their ship. Much later I saw they were showing me that technology is being used.
It sounded like technology was being engaged and directed to me. It’s growling, why’s that? . thinking This might become difficult.
how very odd all this is. Next, I heard the word…Mrep! (Visitor) Mrep, what the hell is.? With that exchange we were talking.
It’s like they’re tuning on what I was getting. How could they know? Yes, they’re already reading my thought responses. We’re communicating! They’re talking with me and the warm feeling of expectation was at its height.
I thought this is actually happening, happening here and right now. Right now! Wide-eyed I couldn’t believe it, thinking It’s too fantastic. they’re real, what a discovery! A man’s voice was very friendly, saying, "Yes, up here.
We’re here. You’re looking at us, and we can see you. You hear us talking to you.
We know you’re interested in us. It's okay, we won't harm you. (Visitor)" At this exact moment Joe said Damn! Obvious excitement, because he realized he could hear them too.
They’re here and they’re talking to us! But there’s a problem, I notice these speech-thoughts went by really fast for a typical English-speaking dialog. It wasn’t like two people speaking with each other, where more time is inserted between thoughts, where we allow each other time to think in the process. It was going by as a flood to grasp, near my limit.
I found it difficult and didn’t want it this way, but it was also all clearly heard and understood. There was only time to respond, no time to form any questions, which may have been deliberate. It seems to account for speed of the exchange.
They were deliberately pacing the exchange so we couldn’t ask them any! questions.Next the voice said…We want to meet and show you around. We do stop and show others sometimes and they have a good time.
We want to be friendly. Would you like to see everything here and have a ride? (Visitor) Immediately, a silly image of a guy popped into mind. The guy was sitting in a deckchair with sunglasses, a blue blazer, white slacks and shoes, with a captain's cap.
If this was supposed to be an image of me having a good time, it struck me as totally bogus, because I would not imagine something so ridiculous in my situation. They must have sent it. I thought nice try.
But it’s also okay with me. My thought in exchange made it okay, because I obviously knew it wouldn’t be like that. It was humorous.
I’m thinking now, these guys do have a sense of humor.Imagine that? I’m invited. I was so excited and thought Really! .
and emphatically thought Yes! I was so happy, so excited and grinning hugely. I shot a glance at Joe. He had on his biggest smile, too, although he didn’t look at me.
Quickly, I looked back to the craft feeling they didn’t want my attention anywhere else. No voice said so but I underst! ood a thought to be…Now look here a moment. (Visitor) I replied thinking Okay .
doing just that. We had switched from our explicit dialog to a direct implicit thought-flow between us; telepathy, explicitly vs. implicitly.
Between reference lights I could see a tiny spot beginning to boil and enlarge. There’s a grayish-green circular spot and it’s getting bigger. A fuzzy spot had formed and was expanding but slowly at first.
It appeared to be swarming with motion and became a cloud-like image emanating from the edge-center of the craft. It was swarming in the sense that it appeared to be boiling with a lot of motion and was fuzzy to look at. It was fairly uniform.
Next I saw circular arcs being traced out one at a time. The circular cloud was growing out of a tiny port on the craft. Arcs appeared at the edge of the circular cloud at twelve o’clock and moved on a curve to its center at the port.
Arcs emanated from the same point-source and immediately began getting bigger, growing into a tear-shaped envelope. One of the yin-yang symbols on the South Korean flag comes to mind, the one curving left, but was narrower. In all five or six formed, each growing onto the upper right side of the circle-like cloud.
After they were all formed the cloud became more oblate, squarer with rounded corners. The envelopes formed sequentially, the first beginning from the 12 o’clock position. Each one was growing on the lower edge of the preceding one.
The tear-shaped envelope is a sort of bottle. Next, I saw contents of the bottle growing from the smaller back at the edge toward its larger front at the port. It’s growing into the space rather than filling into it.
This is a biological process and how it grew was amazing. The process took only a few seconds to complete each teardrop envelope of its contents. Growth would suddenly appear in discrete steps, not gradually filling within chambers of the envelope.
I saw its compartments being filled in. Each cell of the envelope is irregular in size, shape, and volume. It reminds me of compartments of a complex soap bubble, itself being formed of bubbles within the biggest bubble.
The inner bubbles are the cells being filled in a flash-instant of growth. There’s a tiny pause, then the process moves to an adjacent cell. The progress of moving between cells reminds me of how water drops suddenly connect together moving down a dry surface.
Just a tiny hesitation before they merge. The next one would get its space filled, and so on until the envelope was totally complete. Each cell was filled with different stuff; some of it was light, some was darker color.
The only thing coming to mind that’s similar is tadpole jelly from the swamp I played in as a kid. As each envelope filled with growth, a new envelope was immediately traced out under it. It would fill and so on until all of them were complete.
The envelopes developed in a clockwise stack under each other, the last one! being grown at the five o’clock on the cloud-circle. When the processing was complete the cloud-object changed its character, getting bigger much faster. It changed to greenish-yellow from gray-green .
more yellow now. Next it began coming, moving rapidly down to us.It traveled the 200-250 yards in under three seconds, closer to two.
I was startled to have it come so fast but I wasn’t scared. As it came, it changed the angle of descent twice. It started down steeply and changed to half the angle at half the distance.
Within the last 100-feet it changed again by half the angle, arriving with a shallow slope only slightly above us as it swept in. As it came I saw the cloud was 3X taller than wide, luminous but not bright and without distinct features. That is, except for a perfect black ellipse centered in its upper third, the major axis at vertical.
The cloud was symmetrical about its vertical. That is if you could fold it in half, both sides would match exactly. The black object seemed like a tunnel in the cloud, like a big eye, but wasn’t.
I searched hard as the mist approached, looking for any definition but saw no detail anywhere. The elliptical feature disappeared without me noticing as the cloud arrived. I feel it’s there merely as a focus, a diversion but nothing significant.
The cloud was strange-looking, much bigger than us but wasn’t itself a creature. At its edges I vaguely recall seeing separate forms the instant it arrived, the kind of thing you can see if you don’t look directly at it. They came so fast I couldn’t focus my eyes fast enough.
It’s like they’re on each side of it, the landing party of workers sent by who’s ever in charge. I’m thinking This is my chance to see something .but no way.
Another interesting point; the light cloud approached low over water, yet I saw no reflection from the water as it came. It’s low enough near the end and I should have seen it. But it didn’t happen.
For a year the subtlety escaped me, as in, what’s wrong with this picture? What sort of light is that anyway? I know that Joe saw the cloud come, too, because as it arrived he hollered No! Joe felt threatened, and anyone would trying to hold onto normal reality. Here is his only known world. Something like this has no place in ordinary life experience… does it? As the light cloud swiftly engulfed us I felt nothing different.
We were immersed in a yellow mist. I struggled to see something, anything. Then looking down and to the right I saw motion.
Something smaller was moving toward Joe. I saw a small person like a five-year-old shuffling past at a half-run followed immediately by another exactly like the first. I only saw them from the belly down.
The glare of yellow light was masking everything. No one came toward me. They went toward Joe, standing to my right four feet away.
Besides their size I made two other observations of them. Their knees are simpler, the same thickness as their thin non-muscular legs. Their knees are nothing like our thick knobby knees.
When they run they don’t lean forward enough as we do. Their backs are nearly straight. Nobody runs like they do.
I’d fall down trying to run like that. I’ve imitated their posture trying to make a step but couldn’t move. I’m thinking they’re really lightweights.
Their upper bodies are minimal. As I watched them go I’m thinking There's no sidewalk over there. They loped past about three feet over the edge of the sidewalk, out over water.
Their loose silvery metallic-looking clothes glowed from the surrounding mist, but less bright than the light. How many came I don’t know, I saw only two. But an interesting thought comes to mind.
I’ve seen bodies of these workers being custom grown, all six of them. A biological process happened just before they came. Seems they use such bodies to work here with us, like we wear our jeans and jacket.
If it’s so, what technology! But it makes a guy speculate about what form they’d normally take, to assume biology-wear as a work suit. It’s what happened. The mist was a nuisance, I couldn’t see much.
I looked carefully at what there was to see. I remember looking at the bright yellow light source at floor level. The bright object was lighting the cloud creating the mist.
It’s on the ‘floor’, parallel and even with the edge of the concrete sidewalk but beyond water’s edge about four feet. The light’s a half-ellipse two inches high, eight inches long. It’s the mechanism making a platform under them, extending over the water where they’re working.
The light had bright radials sticking up from it in the vertical plane and was located parallel to the edge of the concrete sidewalk. I saw the bigger radials of light are separated at 20-30 degree angles from each other, bright from the source and quickly becoming less distinct, fading a few inches above source. Radials would all shift together at irregular intervals, hopping back and forth, yet holding their places and distances to each other as they all jumped to another position.
My impression was, it’s compensating for load dynamics on the platform as the workers moved about. I closely studied this light show until I understood what it’s doing. I looked up and forward into the mist thinking Now, what next? Then I felt I was going.
Going? It’s really subtle. No weight off my feet or of being uplifted, but a feeling of departure, upwards. Then.
blank. I was blanked for a time, because next I remember coming to, realizing I’d been blanked. I was again conscious, present, feeling some air.
I seemed to be back on the sidewalk where I’d been. My body was still standing there just as before. I felt the gentle air from the canal.
My eyes were still closed, although I felt I could open them if I wanted but didn’t. Seems, somehow I knew we weren’t finished yet. I heard a slow vibration, about 8-Hz, like a flutter.
Then quickly it’s gently against my forehead. In a moment it went in. It’s inside my head! It was not interfering with my mind, I could still think.
But I’m being buzzed by a wave, a gentle, extremely low frequency (ELF) wave. thinking What's it doing? ELF wave was getting harder, slowly rising in intensity and in frequency. I felt like it was charging my brain, like a capacitor, more, more, and more.
It kept on increasing, the frequency going up, up, ever upwards. On and on and I’m thinking Will it ever end? …Knowing it’s going to my limit and wishing it would find it soon. But it kept going higher, higher.
How could it go so high? I wasn’t happy with the wave continuing upward. It’s tough to take but it went to an unbelievably high level before finally hitting my limit. It abruptly stopped with a pop at the top of my head.
Receiving the buzz was an extremely rude experience. I was grimacing, eyes and jaws tightly clenched to withstand its powerful effect. There’s never any pain, just a force.
When it ended, I got released and it doubled me over spinning me around clockwise. I saw Joe's feet where he’d been, still standing next to me. I shouted What the hell was that? Damn!.
Thinking I am back. Have I just landed on my feet? . I’m on my feet.
It felt strange being back, like where had I gone? Physically I don’t feel I went anywhere. I was zapped hard by something and was afraid, thinking Maybe I’m ruined. It’s the most physically stunning experience.
I staggered around a long moment, 10- or 20-seconds, trying not to fall into the canal. I was cursing trying to get a grip on reality, trying to get my balance. Everything’s distorted, nothing making any sense as I look around.
For once I’m scared, thinking I might stay this way. The wave was forceful and its release was like having grabbed a 240-volt AC line. new meaning to the word stunning.
It also cleared out my thought processes but not where I live in my mind. That part was still unaffected, because I was myself the whole time. Rude as it was I still had the glad feeling like before.
Maybe it’s all in friendship, and if so I’d hate to be on their other list. Good time, is it? The only thing coming to mind was that they’d given me a capacity test, taking a measurement. But Guinea pig? There’s obviously nothing else it could be.
Finally I was coming out of it, looking around for them. The disk was moving away, flying over the canal a mile to the east. It made a curious maneuver, a small move to the right to back over the levee.
But it did so in a spiral motion, first moving left then rolling in a downward circle coming up to the right, all the while keeping its horizontal axis parallel to the ground. It’s a victory roll. Way too odd! I’m thinking Someone’s got a real sense of humor in there.
Their job clearly has some humor in it, watching me deal with effects of the Buzz. More than coincidental, the maneuver was for my benefit, because I understood it as a wave goodbye. The little buggars! They had to know I was looking, like they were watching through my own eyes somehow.
But what’s the relationship and why so friendly? Well, I’d actually discover why four years later. There’s more ahead about them, you’ll be impressed. It’s easy for me to see their maneuver, because my eyes were so slowed down.
My eyes were now like a video screen, with light-paint lingering, delayed in a sort of light-smear, tracing out its path as I watched the craft circle moving back over the levee. I was thinking Fishermen at Nubbin Lock are getting a big surprise as this thing flies low over them .right .
about .now. I laughed to myself about it.
Shortly later I looked toward the Nubbin again, still getting my bearings. White lights all looked very yellow now, blurred .even smeared.
They’re much bigger than usual although not brighter. What seemed different was, when I moved my head, the lights smeared to over where I was now looking. Then the smear slowly faded.
Also, I had tremendous night vision, almost like day. I could see everything around me, up and down the canal. Everything is clearly lit by a yellow light glow.
There’s more. I also had eagle vision at will. I could will myself to have a close-up frame of any object I wanted to see.
It would simply appear closer and bigger. Such total surprise! I stood looking at things in a residual yellow-light effect. I could see better by it.
The light cloud was gone, of course. At the time, there were very few lights down the canal and not big. But that night they helped light up the whole canal.
Otherwise it’s blackness down there when there’s no moonlight. I enj! oyed my newly given ability only briefly, because we were washed out and tired. At that point we stopped looking and went inside but soon came out, again, for another look.
I saw the disk glowing brightly two miles down, still near the levee. Back inside the house it was drab, really dull and uninteresting after being outside seeing things. Artificial light so close to me inside was annoying.
My vision had changed. I was sensitized to see by different light and its effect is awesome. If the Army only knew that a directed ELF produces fantastic natural night vision.
Fat chance though, that they’d make anything happen like this in a hundred years. It’s modulated ELF. We sat in the house a few minutes saying nothing.
I felt so different than normal, like being at arms length from myself. I could still think but I couldn’t scan-think, like in thought synthesis. It‘s the processes needed for reaching conclusions.
Thoughts wouldn’t flow in that way. Then without discussing it we headed for the bedrooms. I threw myself down on the bed and stared to the ceiling, trying to rethink what happened.
In the pitch-black room my new night vision didn‘t help. I couldn’t see.Next, it’s morning .
a dreamless sleep all night. Like flatline, there’s nothing in my head. I woke up rested with the event first in my mind.
Again, Joe and I didn’t speak of it the whole way to Boca. It’s perfectly ridiculous, but we’re keeping the same ‘secret’ from each other. It’s too taxing to discuss, besides I only wanted to relive it privately.
By that night my special night vision was gone. But my eyes played tricks concerning eagle vision. Sometimes it’s in, sometimes it’s out.
It gave me problems driving, because scanning for traffic in the mirror sometimes a car seemed too close, nearly on top of me. Seconds later, it’s back to normal. The car was where it should be.
It’s annoying and dogged me for days. Weeks passed. I’m rethinking the even! t everyday while driving.
Gradually more and more came back and I wrote everything down. Finally I had it all except for being blanked. That part wasn’t recovered.
if I got my ride after all. PS: Years later someone explained to me that ELF is extraordinary stuff. It’s like my visitors used a handheld device, working up close while doing me with ELF.
That’s interesting technology, because governments communicate with their submarine fleets using ELF. But there’s a difference. All our efforts need an antenna big as a football field to create such long waves.
As a result of the encounter, he wrote four books with the information they gave him and asked him to write in astounding detail. The contents of these books provide the rationale for our lives and the answers to questions that mankind has been asking since the beginning.
Okeechobee, 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 | 6 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Fireball | 2 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Unknown | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Disk | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Star | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Cylinder | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Okeechobee, 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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November | 5 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
October | 4 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
March | 3 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
May | 2 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
April | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
February | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
September | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Okeechobee, 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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Wednesday | 6 reported sightings | 30.00% of all reports |
Friday | 4 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Thursday | 3 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Sunday | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Saturday | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Okeechobee, 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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03/02/05 | 2 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
10/16/15 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
03/15/08 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
10/14/15 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
09/14/10 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Okeechobee, 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 | 9 reported sightings | 45.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 5 reported sightings | 25.00% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 3 reported sightings | 15.00% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 1 reported sightings | 5.00% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Okeechobee, Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Okeechobee, Florida.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2022 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2022 |
2017 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2015 | 2 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2013 | 3 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2012 | 2 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2012 |
2010 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2010 |
2009 | 2 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2009 |
2008 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2008 |
2005 | 3 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2002 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2002 |
2001 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 2001 |
1994 | 1 UFO Reports | Okeechobee, Florida UFO Sightings in 1994 |
All Florida Cities with UFO Sightings
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