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Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 23 UFO sighting reports in Orange Park, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "circle" (4 reports, 17.39% of total).
- May is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (5 reports, 21.74% of total).
- Friday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (7 reports, 30.43% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (3 reports, 13.04% of total).
- 01/04/06 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (1 reports, 4.35% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (12 reports, 52.17% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Orange Park, Florida
These Orange Park, 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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2 gleaming white objects flying in formation across the sky My mother and I saw several objects in the sky at approx 430pm this afternoon November 9, 2023. It was about 80° with mostly clear skies and some stratus clouds way up. They were heading about 30°N and flew across half the sky for about 30 seconds while we watched from the dock.
Waaay high up - they went into super high stratus clouds towards the end but we could still see them through the clouds for a bit. I saw 2 aircraft with no wings - but there was something folded over on the sides. And they were big enough that we could see that detail from that high.
I saw the 2 aircraft flying in perfect formation, but one of them kindof twisted and looked like there could be two craft on top of each other, then they merged again. They gleamed white in the sunlight. There was no trail behind them and absolutely no sound.
Mom agrees that we have absolutely no idea what they were. My father was an engineer for the Air Force and designed several planes, including working on the B2 stealth bomber, so my mother and I are both familiar with different aircraft. We currently live near NAS JAX and are used to seeing all sorts of aircraft, but these were like nothing we have ever seen.
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Object that from distance looked like clouds rising, meeting in air, ascending, descending traveling is straight lines These Objects were noted from a distance as small clouds, but when they came closer, and one of them actually landed in front of us, they looked like masses of bubbles, very dense bubbles with a denser nucleus. My friend who directly observed them first, stuck his hand in to one, he stated it was like bubbles but not, he couldn't pop them and they seperated from his hand, went straight up in the air, descened onto a driveway 10 feet away. Changed shape into something that looked like a small dog looking up into the sky.
It then glided straight down the driveway 8 feet or so, then made a hard right perfect turn and started down the sidewalk about 20ft or so. It then puffed up and went straight up in the air, flew into the branches of the tree, moved around in the branches and came out the right side even larger and coalescing, it sparkled but not on the surface as of the sun, from the inside. It then flew straight over the house(with the driveway stated earlier) and descended upon the house, changed into a cone shape and developed what could only be described as wings flapping.
We then had to leave and go back to the Church, when we left this on object was still there and many more in the immediate sky flying, following each other around, up, down. I took a full video of my friends hand inside the object and of all the activity noted, when I went back to look at the video it was gone, I also took quite a few pictures, and pictures at extreme x100 zoom which some developed, some not. I have scoured the internet for similiar pictures of object, but have not found any.
As God is my witness this was exactly what we saw and the events surrounding it.
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I saw 6 crafts in the shape of a cube, 4 on the outside, 2 perfectly going around each other in an infinity sign It was weird with what i saw, i heard a weird buzzing noise in my ear and i asked to go outside and in broad daylight i saw extremly bright lights pulsing back in fourth in a infinity motion.
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Rotating/Radiating white light 10 mile visibility coming from overcast sky On September 18, 2020 at approximately 22:10 on my way home from work, I spotted what I initially took as cloud-to-cloud lighting. This time of year, there is a lot of that and rain. It only happened once so I thought nothing of it.
A few minutes later, I see it again, but it makes me think it may be plane ‘headlight’. Both occurrences are happening in a southerly direction. As I work at a military facility I, again, did not pay close attention.
Upon exiting the facility, I noticed that the ‘headlight’ I had seen minutes before was now more southwest, but moved more like a search light. We had overcast skies and I was not able to spot a helicopter or plane. It now had my attention as I drove, because while it resembled a search/spotlight, the movement was erratic.
I hoped to see it again. I was able to spot it again approximately 7-10 minutes later and probably 4 miles from the military facility. The light was still located southwest.
I turned into an ! industrial area with less trees and low building to keep it in sight. The light were now more to south again but, even with less light pollution, I was not able to find a ground light source. Spotlights that want you to find a location; I know from experience.
There is a ray that radiates up into the sky. There was no ray from the ground. I noticed that the light was radiating, like a lighthouse (I am not on a coast and the direction from which the light was radiating was even more inland) rotating around a center point, but I could see the light all the way around without interruption.
The radius of movement was far enough apart it required me to turn my head to follow it. I pulled over and began recording the light. I recorded for approximately two minutes.
I began heading home, but thought it would be better to have another witness to the light and contacted a friend I knew would be awake at 22:38. She was able to see the light while we were on the phone and her home is approximately 3 miles from where I was located. She said her roommate had seen the light one his way home from a convenience store.
We monitored the lights as I drove. Confirming we were ab! le to see the same lights and the same pattern of movement. The lights were spinning in a clockwise motion, rhythmically, and then it would stop, in an easterly position pause for 2-3 seconds before starting again counterclockwise.
It would stop, reverse again, and rotate faster in the clockwise position before returning to the rhythmic spin. We got off the phone so she too could record a video. I had my 15 year old come outside and view the lights when I got home (I live about 8 miles from the military facility; my child’s friend had mentioned the spotlight was visible from her home 9 miles south of our location via a social media forum.
I asked if my child was able to see a ray of light from the ground and no, was not visible. Now that I did not have to divide my focus, I watched the light, could see that the light seemed almost flat, and looked high in the sky. It was similar to shining a flat bicycle flashlight at the ground in front of you so the light spreads far and flat.
I could see passing puffy clouds, but the light did not appear to penetrate the clouds so the light was not near me, and/or not below the passing clouds. The movement remained the same, but I was not able to record the light, as my battery was too low on my phone. While observing the light it appeared to get thinner, brighter, and/or wider.
I was able to see that the cloud density effected the light penetration. The light was definitely coming from the sky and not the ground. There was texture/color variance to the clouds the light had been ‘white’ during most of the event.
It appeared a little more yellow when it was brighter, however I do not know if that was because of the clouds or the light itself. The light stoppe! d one more time easterly, before it began to spin again and was gone. I stopped seeing the light at approximately 2300 and it did not return.
I did not witness a craft of any kind during this encounter.
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White DOT observed at 1300 hours - Orange Park, Florida At approximately 1300 hours on May 22, 2020, I was waiting outside of Sonny’s BBQ on Kingsley Avenue in Orange Park, Florida. Looking North across Kingsley Avenue is a construction crane, with the boom facing East, at the Orange Park Medical Center. Maybe one or two degrees above, and halfway of the boom, there was a bright white dot against a blue sky.
The dot was not navigating as if it were a balloon or aircraft, but maybe as if it was a Bald Eagle. The dot moved slowly with respect to our location on the ground, and moved from two degrees above the boom to maybe near 20 degrees. It made gradual loops as it transitioned higher and higher in reference to the original location.
The dance in the sky lasted for about three minutes before the object accelerated away Northeast at a flash of a speed. A Retired Navy Chief friend, and a couple standing next to me also observed the object, but had no idea what it may be.
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Bright Blue-green object silently flies very fast across sky near Orange Park FL We were standing on our patio between 21:15-21:30 last night. We saw a blue-green moving across the sky from east southeast to west southwest. The sky was clear.
There were 2 airplanes visible in the sky at the time, which is normal, since we live close to NAS-JAX. The object looked very similar to a bright star, but slightly larger and brighter. It did not blink and did not appear to twinkle at all.
It was larger and brighter than any stars visible at the time. I would estimate that from our point of view, it appeared similar in size and brightness to the north star. We did not hear any sound.
It moved very quickly but did appear to slow down for a few seconds one time before resuming its previous speed. The object stayed on the same path making no turns for the full time it was in view. We were able to see the object very clearly from the time it appeared on the horizon to our east all the way through its path to the western horizon, until it became too faint in the distance.
We have a lot of military and civilian aircraft traffic in our area and are very aware of how they behave in the sky. Any aircraft that was close enough for its lights to appear this size and brightness would have been very easy to hear. The speed of the object could not be matched by any of the fighter jets that we commonly see.
Any aircraft capable of this speed would not have been silent if it were flying low enough, and close enough, to appear this size in she night sky. There were no additional lights as would be expected on a plane or helicopter either. An object with this speed and brightness flying high enough to be inaudible would have to be absolutely massive.
I thought it may have been the International Space Station but that was supposedly only visible during a 2 minute window over 2 hrs. before this sighting and would have been moving in the opposite direction according to the NASA website.
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One reddish/green orb flying southeast to northwest in the sky. One reddish green flashing or pulsation orb was moving south east to north west. No sound was noted to this object.
The sky was clear and firework had just finished up in the eastern direction. Could not determine speed or height the orb was moving at though it was moving faster than a conventional aircraft and was moving up and down or wobbling at the same time it was moving forward.
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11 to 12 orange colored triangular objects sighted for about 2 minutes around midnight in Orange Park, Fl. On Sept. 26, 2016 I was taking my dog out after the debate, before bed.
I looked up to see if the sky had cleared so I could see the stars, which I love to do. I was shocked to see a group of orange, triangular shaped, moving objects. They were larger than any of the planets or stars I could see.
They were just above the tree line, probably 60 degrees. I would have thought it was a flock of geese had it been daytime or had each been lit! But, they were each lit, a fairly bright orange, and the 11 or 12 objects flew rather slowly. There was no noise that I could hear and the "v" shape was not perfect.
Some flew somewhat out of formation, for lack of a better word. I wonder if anyone else saw this.
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Ball of light, flash, fast. While on my way to retrieve my laundry, I looked up at the sky to admire the stars. For a split second, a small ball of light raced a crossed the sky.
It left a trail of light behind it that disappeared, just as fast. It seemed closer to the ground than a plane would be. It was white and circular in shape, brighter than the stars and moon in the sky.
((NUFORC Note: Witness does not indicate a date of the sighting, so we have assigned one arbitrarily. Witness elects to remain anonymous, and provides no contact information, so we are unable to confirm the date. PD)) ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that the date of the sighting is approximate.
PD)).
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Object appeared to be burning, hovering low enough to see it wasn't a plane. I was driveway and thought I saw a falling star, however, the object in question seemed to slow into a sort of hover. I called attention to it and my near by friends.
The object at first seemed like it was burning but was so bright it appeared to be glinting. I pulled my phone out and snapped a picture. It seemed to hover for around 40 seconds before rapidly ascending in a sort of vertical angle.
I could see it for approximately 3 and a half minutes before it was no longer visible.
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Bright orange light in sky above Jacksonville by NAS Jax. First and foremost, I need to state that I selected fireball as the shape of the craft because that's the closest description. I posted a video on YouTube and will provide a link at the end of this report.
On May 7, 2015, I was standing with a buddy on our friend's front porch having a conversation when, above the house across the street, we see a bright orange ball cutting across the sky, moving from north to south. At first we thought this was a fireball or maybe a meteor falling thru the atmosphere (in the video you'll hear me state this). After a few moments I change my assumption because there was no discernible smoke trail, indicating that it couldn't be a fireball.
We followed this object for a few minutes until it became difficult to see. I need to be clear about a couple of things that lead me to believe this is a UFO. When we first saw the object we assumed it was a fireball since it was coming towards us and we could see the "heat shield" as if it were falling thru the atmosphere at us.
The reason I changed my assumption is because we got turned around 180 degrees from the porch we were standing on and could still see the same "heat shield" from the rear of the object and there was no smoke trail. It couldn't have been a modern day jet or plane either because we wouldn't have seen the jet's flame until it was going away from us but we clearly saw the color as it was coming towards us and going away from us. Here is the link for the video.
If you have any information please leave a comment on the youtube page.
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Green orb hovered parallel to my car in Orange Park, FL. In short, I was driving home from school at night (no drugs or anything of that sort, nor was I extremely tired), and as I was approaching the intersection of Kingsley Ave and 17 (Orange Park, FL), at about 10:00 P.M.
I saw what looked like a green orb running parallel to my car (I think I was going about 35-40 MPH), maybe at about 60 degrees to my left, on the opposite (East) side of the road (I was traveling South). I think, even though it would move in a straight line, it would appear in front of certain objects, and behind other objects. This went on for maybe a few seconds a most, and then it suddenly flew off really fast, and I think it left a very soft, green, light trail behind it, which faded away quickly.
That is the last detail I recall. I am 22 years old at the time of this report; not on any medications besides allergy relief.
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Low Frequency makes house feel as though it would implode. We were asleep and heard what we thought was a plane flying overhead. Slowly, a low frequency began to sound.
We (my wife and I) thought it was a low flying plane. The sound began to get louder and louder until we thought our windows were going to implode from the low frequency sound. After about a minute the sound stopped and everything in the backyard (see below)there was an abnormal silence.
During the incident the backyard became very dark (this was odd as the moon was a few days past full) and the nightlife was completely still. No crickets, no other insects were making the usual noise. We are close to two large bodies of water.
Our dogs and cat did not move during this entire episode. My wife believed the incident began at 03:30, however it began at 02:37, as the clock is closest to me and the numbers are large enough to see without wearing corrective lens. I am not certain if this was an abduction as we both do not remember anything from 02:37 to 03:30.
Needless to say my nature makes me skeptical, but this experience was mind-boggling and frightening all at once. The loss of time cannot be confirmed with any certainty. There may have been aircraft in pursuit, but if so they missed the object.
Has anyone else had this type of experience? ((NUFORC Note: Source of report indicates that the date is approximate. PD)).
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Bright object comes up from behind trees hovering over the water. Son wakes me up at 5 in the morning. Catching a bright pulsing object hovering in the sky.
Had a red beam at the bottom. Then 15 minutes later a flashing ball of lughts shoots pass the object in a circular motion. All caught on video.
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Orange Park Fl 3 minutes pulsating glowing red and orange orb seen by 4 family members Before we saw the glowing pulsating ball of ember in the sky on our drive home we noticed the sky darken within the matters of seconds. We found that to be very strange, we continued home as normal. I was in the house when my wife and children yelled for me to come here, I ran to see what the commotion was all about I could not believe my eyes, There in the sky a glowing, pulsating orb of some sort slowly glide across the sky and disappeared below the tree line it was so close it looked as if you could touch but so far that all you could see was the shape of the thing.
I am still in awe shocked and in disbelief all at the same time. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Witness may be same person who telephoned our Center over the UFO Hotline, but we cannot be certain.
PD)).
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Cloud shield maker over Clay county Florida My wife and I had just finished lunch at some eatery on Fleming Island (Orange Park, FL) and were headed west on SR 220 (Clay county). I had just remarked at to what a beautiful day and as to how the sky was completely cloudless when I noticed a very small cloud (the only cloud) in the sky almost immediately straight ahead of us and about 45 degrees from the horizon. The cloud, strangely enough, was almost square and about the size of my thumbnail when viewed at arms length.
I thought that to be quite odd, pointed it out to my wife and we both continued to look at it. As we watched, the cloud slowly dissipated, fading out completely and then amazingly reappeared in the same place in much the same shape and form. My wife, not nearly as interested as I was, watched for a second and then something in her purse, perhaps her cell phone--I don’t remember, attracted her attention.
It was at that point that the cloud dissipated again and I saw what appeared to be a small gray craft, its features somewhat blurry and indistinct but squarish in feature. Look I said "it’s a UFO," but in the fraction of a second it took for my wife to look again it was gone. Of course she didn’t believe me.
I would have submitted this report sooner but I just now found this site. However the above report was written as soon as I got home that day - about an hour after the viewing. I have not altered it since then.
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Look like a bright star flying very fast with no trail behind it. I was heading to work. It was approx.
5:40 am eastern time.I was waiting on traffic to make a right turn on Blanding Blvd. Something caught my eye going across the sky toward the western part.
It was as big and bright as viewing Venus, however it was traveling at a very fast rate. I watch it till it passed over the horizon. However my horizon ends with some structures in the way.
I passed it off at first thinking that it was a meteor. However after thinking about it, it had no trail behind it. It couldnt have been a jet (as we have military bases nearby)because the bright light would have been coming toward me,also there were no port and starboard lights.
My only other thought was that maybe it was the Space Station going over head in orbit. However a friend of mine said when you view the space station in the sky it appears stabilised. So I am not sure what it was, and I have not heard any other reports.
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A long orange light moving in the sky. I was uncertain if it was a plane, I watched it separate. Two lights, lots of smoke, separated from the main orange light.
Then they finally dimmed out. Then the main light kept moving in a northwest direction. I kept watching and something else separated from that light, too far more me to tell what was going on.
((NUFORC Note: We assume that the witness describes above the launch of a Titan IV missile out of Cape Canaveral, which occurred at 20:55 hrs. (Eastern) on this date. The missile apparently was launched to the northeast, so it was visible along the eastern shoreline of the U.
S. PD)))).
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lights over the eclpise At about 11:16 or so i was outside observing the lunner eclpise when myself and my brother saw this tear shaped blueish purple light pass in front of the now dark shaded moon.it sat in one spot right in the bottom left-right side of the dark moon.for approx.
12 mins it sat there just changing colors not getting closer or farther away,i know this because of the constent size and shape. after the moon started to lighten back up it took off at a very very high rate of speed straight up and it was gone.
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Disk in the sky above city I was looking east when I noticed a disk like craft slowly drifting from South to norht and appeared to wable on it's Norht/South axis to approximadly 45 degrees left, then right. The disk seem pail gray in some fation but as it was night, I could not really tell you. I did not see any noticible lights or markings on this craft and it was unlike anything I have evern seen in my years of in the Military (9).
The craft was moving slowly at or around 75 miles per hour. It was flying at a low altitude and seemed to be in front of some clouds and behind others. I watched it closely for nearly 3 minutes until it drifted out of sight, hidden by clouds.
((NUFORC Note: Date of sighting is approximate. PD)).
Orange Park, 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 | 17.39% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Disk | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Light | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Oval | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Rectangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Fireball | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Triangle | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Other | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Orange Park, 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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May | 5 reported sightings | 21.74% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
April | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
September | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
January | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
November | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
March | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
December | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
August | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
June | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Orange Park, 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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Friday | 7 reported sightings | 30.43% of all reports |
Thursday | 4 reported sightings | 17.39% of all reports |
Tuesday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Sunday | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Wednesday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Saturday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Monday | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Orange Park, 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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01/04/06 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
09/26/16 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
04/29/05 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
08/16/16 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
07/15/01 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Orange Park, 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 | 12 reported sightings | 52.17% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 3 reported sightings | 13.04% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 2 reported sightings | 8.70% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1 reported sightings | 4.35% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Orange Park, Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Orange Park, Florida.
Year | Number of Reports | View Reports |
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2023 | 2 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2023 |
2020 | 3 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2020 |
2017 | 2 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2017 |
2016 | 2 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2016 |
2015 | 2 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2015 |
2014 | 3 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2014 |
2013 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2013 |
2007 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2007 |
2006 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2006 |
2005 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2005 |
2003 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2003 |
2001 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2001 |
2000 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 2000 |
1998 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 1998 |
1992 | 1 UFO Reports | Orange Park, Florida UFO Sightings in 1992 |
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