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Tallahassee, Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 70 UFO sighting reports in Tallahassee, Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (14 reports, 20.00% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (8 reports, 11.43% of total).
- Monday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (13 reports, 18.57% of total).
- 2015 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (6 reports, 8.57% of total).
- 01/07/99 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (2 reports, 2.86% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (33 reports, 47.14% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Tallahassee, Florida
These Tallahassee, 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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Arrowhead shaped object going directly west in the wnw area of the sky, very fast. Sitting on my front porch around 10:45 PM on a Sunday night, I was looking towards the West North West direction in the sky when I briefly saw a Arrowhead shaped object flying west. It was flying at such a high speed that I couldn't turn on my phones camera to capture it.
At first I thought it was a shooting star but giving it a closer look it had a shape, glowing white edges around a Arrowhead shaped body. I could only see it for less than 10 seconds before it passed behind clouds. There was no sound, no sonic boom.
It seemed very large and far away, glowing as if it has recently entered the atmosphere.
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It appeared to look similar to the starlink satellite picture but disappeared from sight and couldn't be tracked even in my vehicle. Object completely disappeared and was at least a quarter mile long.
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I arrived at work and I parked my car in front of the building. The sky was clear without clouds. As I was walking, I looked into the sky I saw something that was flashing lights or reflecting light from the sunrise.
I noticed that the object was bouncing and changing directions very fast so I took few pics before the object disappeared.
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3 bright white objects changed direction and shape formation, then merged into 1 oblong object On 12/28/2020 at 2:45 pm, it was a bright and sunny day with no clouds in the sky. I was walking outside in my neighborhood that has a lot of pine trees, and when I came to an incline with a clearing of trees that exposed the sky, I looked up and noticed 3 distinct bright white round objects arranged in a straight line moving west. As I continued walking, I noticed that the 3 objects began to move around each other as you would move shells in a shell game.
They slowed down, almost stopping, then formed a perfect triangle. This is when I tried to take a video, which I got for a second or so until a tree branch obscured my view. As I moved to an opening to keep watching, the 3 triangular objects merged into 1 oblong object that was now moving in the opposite direction (east).
The object kept moving eastward as one oblong object. There was a passenger airplane in the vicinity, that was distinctly and obviously an airplane, unlike these 3 objects that moved, sl! owed, changed shape and direction. I watched the object(s) for about 5 minutes, then kept walking, while they were still present.
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I was walking out to my truck after dark around 8:30 pm to leave after having dinner with my aunt and uncle. I stopped and looked up to the sky for some reason when I unlocked my vehicle door. I saw what I believed to be a satellite moving slowly across the sky.
It was simply just a dot of light far away. Then the object moved quickly downward and I knew it wasn’t a satellite. I gazed in awe as another bright light quickly moved towards it.
They were moving very unnaturally. I stared for about one minute before the tree line obstructed my view.
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Craft was there one frame and gone the next Craft was moving across sky. A picture of this was taken on a game camera. One frame it was there the next frame the craft was gone.
The trail camera was attached to a tree in the woods I hunt in. The craft was a bright white. There were multiple lights shining out out of.
the craft. This information I have on a SD card.
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without any sound, oval, with 2 bright lights and one dim light, surrounded by light It was without any sound, oval, with 2 bright lights and one dim light. moving fast and straight. seemed to be not so far away from the ground (mb 100meters?).
there was a dim light all around the craft with a some kind tail at the end.
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Two pulsing lights traveling along the same flight path at twilight In Tallahassee, Florida downtown office building. Looking from my north facing office window at twilight, saw two pulsing lights at a distance too far apart to be a single aircraft. Just above the western horizon, one behind the other.
They were each marked by single pulses of white, star like light, apparent magnitude 3.0, the trailing one pulsing about 3/10ths second after the lead one, traveling along the same northeast to southwest path. Each light pulsed at a rate approximately once per second.
Called my colleague into my office, and she observed the same lights, verified that they were too far apart to belong to a single aircraft, and appeared as flickering stars in motion along a flight path rather than aircraft. Neither of the lights had any color, and the second, trailing light, always pulsed immediately after the lead light.
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Around April 21, 2019 at 13:00 pm had a close encounter with a human form object dressed in black from head to toe. I saw a strange black human shaped object staring at me while I was in the garage of my friend's house. I had my back turned facing the inside of the garage, and when I turn around now facing the outside of the garage, the black thing appeared to be staring at me; however, I could not see it eyes.
It was black from head to toe. It appeared to be standing at a profile position near what looked like a low bush. No eyes or facial feature noted- too black.
When I attempted to call my friend who had entered his house, I found my voice speechless. Then, it disappeared into thin air! I drew a picture of what I saw and would like to share it with an investigator. We are NOT along in this universe.
Of notable mention: The strange object did not appear hostile toward me during the brief encounter. Please know that this is a NOT a HOAX sighting. This occurred in April 2019, and after recent news of aircraft pilots reporting strange sightings, I felt compelled t! o contact this department to share my experience.
I had a close encounter with the black object, but no spaceship or strange aircraft was seen.
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I was travelling north on Capital Circle and had just passed the federal prison, when I noticed a slow moving light about 40 degrees up and straight ahead over the intersection. After focusing on the light that seemed to be maybe a half mile beyond Mahan Drive, I clearly saw a triangular airship not that dissimilar from a stealth bomber in size shape and color. There were no other lights on the airship other than the bright white light coming from the bottom center of the ship.
After a brief second or two, it instantaneously accelerated and disappeared beyond the horizon heading east southeast. It went from close to hovering speed to maybe the speed of a meteorite, with no gradual acceleration. The entire experience lasted maybe 4-5 seconds.
There was no noise related to this experience.
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I was on my balcony at around 5 am this morning. In the sky, I noticed a gold ring of lights that did not move. The lights did not blink at all and got dimmer and brighter on occasion.
An airplane passed by after a bit and appeared much smaller than this ring. It stayed in the sky, not moving, for over an hour and as the sun rose, it still was there, but as it got brighter, I could not see it again.
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IT WAS A CIRCLE LIKE SPACE CRAFT SPINNING AROUND WITH DIFFERNT COLORS THEN IT CHANGED INTO A 3 LIGHT SPACE CRAFT ME AND MY FRIEND WAS SITTING ON THE BACK OF MY CAR WHEN WE HEARD THIS LOUD HELICOPTER SOUND IT SOUNDED LIKE IT TOOK FOREVER TO GET TO US BUT HEN IT SEEMS LIKE WE THE OLY ONES THAT CAN HEAR IT. NEXT THING YOU KNOW HE WAS LIKE BROOOO LOOK WHATS IS THAT AND I WAS LIKE WHAT. HE SAID THAT OVER THERE.
I SAW IT WITH MY OWN EYES. IT WAS A CIRCLE LIKE SHIP SPINNING AROUND OVER N OVER IT WAS MOVING SLOW BUT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS HEADING TOWARDS US AT THE SAME TIME. IT THEN TURNED INTO 3 LIGHTS.
LITERALLY ONLY 3 LIGHTS. WEIRD HUH ? THE LAST THING I REMEBER IS MY FRIEND SAYING OH SNAP THERE A LIGHT COMING FROM IT. IN SECONDS EVERYHTING WENT BLACK I COULD NOT SEE MYSELF NOR MY FRIEND I FELT VERY NAUSEOUS AND SICK.
BUT I STILL COULDNT SEE. IT FELT LIKE IF I WAS IN THIS BLACK DARK ROOM WITH COLD AIR BLOWING ON MY BODY. WHEN I WAS ABLE TO SEE AGAIN I WAS SITTING DOWN ON THE CURVE WHICH I CAN'T EXPLAIN BECAUSE MY AND MY FRIEND WAS BOTH STANDING UP AT THE TIME.
HE WAS ALSO SITTI! NG DOWN ON THE CURVE BE INSTEAD HE WAS SITTING ON THE CURVE NOT BESIDE ME BUT ACROSS FROM ME WHICH IS VERY STRANGE AND CRAZY. AFTER THAT OCCURED WE CAN SEE THE 3 LIGHT FORMATION SHIP FLYING BEHIND THE TRESS THEN IT WAS GONE. WE ASKED EACH OTHER WHAT HAD HAPPEN I COULDNT SAY NOR COULD HE.
ALL WE REMEMBER WAS SEEING THIS SHIP WHILE STANDING UP THEN EVERYTHING WENT BLANK AND BOOM WE WAS SITTING ON THE CURVE. I DO BELIEVE IN MEN IN BLACK. I DIDN'T WANT TO SAY NOTHING AT FIRST BECUASE I DONT NEED ANYBODY AT MY FRONT DOOR TRYING TO ERASE MY MIND OR ANYTHING.
BUT THIS EVENT ACTUALLY DID HAPPEN TO MY FRIEND AND I.AND HIS MY WITNESS. WEVE ONLY TOLD A FEW PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT WE WAS CRAZY.
BUT SOME BELIEVED US.
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It was a cicle like craft hovering in the sky it was clear white looking it had no lights on it moving at about 1mph Sorry im just reporting this 4 months later it's just so shocking im a bug fan of ufo so I know what we saw was legit no doubt about it. So me and my girl friend was riding down Tennessee street I think north or south one of the two and I was like baby look at that over there she looked her mouth just dropped. Im not sure if anyone else saw it because we wasn't the only ones on the road but we saw a circle like craft just hovering in mid air it looked clear or white something like that almost if it was about to land on the tower tree looking thingy which is impossible to do, it was moving at about 1mph yesss that slow.
Next thing you know we pass by a small tree that literally a small tree we passed by it in light seconds because realize we are in a car it doesn't take that long to pass a tree. we looked back up to see it again.it was gone just that fast .
I even turned my car around in mid traffic to try to locate what we just seen we never saw it again. I ! will tell anybody what I saw. WE KNOW WHAT WE SAW WASN'T A NORMAL SPACE CRAFT.
I WAS SO SMALL IT WOULD BE INPOSSIBLE FOR A HUMAN TO FIT IN. WELL THAT'S WHAT IT SEEM LIKE.
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White and red lights cylinder and round shaped spotted several nights in sky. On approximately May 1, 2016, was getting ready for bed and was in my kitchen and looked out the back window. My back yard has a chain link fence with a wooded area behind it.
Noticed lights in the wooded area – first though they were lightning bugs but realized that they are not reddish white round globes that zip around. They starting coming into my yard (about 8 of them) and were zooming from one side of the yard to the other, bouncing into my neighbor’s yard and then across mine again. I could not believe what I was seeing and just continued to stare out the window.
One of the “things” starting coming straight toward my kitchen window. It is like it noticed me standing there and came to a stop about 3 feet from the window and took off. All the other objects left also.
Haven’t seen anything out back again. However, on May 16 I started noticing lights in the sky in front of my house, across the road, etc. They are bright white and sometimes reddish.
They ! flicker and change shape. There are sometimes 4 or 5 and sometimes only 2 or 3, but there almost every night. Last night, June 7, at about 11 p.
m. there about 6 of them in the sky. One of them zoomed down near the street lamp at the corner of my property and the light immediately went off.
I went to my living room and flipped on my porch lights and the street light immediately came back on, no flickers or anything. About 4 or 5 of the objects seem to zoom off to the north and there were about 3 of the objects left in the sky. These make no sound whatsoever, but are freaking me out.
I do not go outside after dark, have put thick curtains over all my windows and leave a lamp on. I just want them to go away. ((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information.
PD)).
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Nine objects seen. Small fireballs that traveled at various speeds and seemed to burn out. The objects were travelling south and were followed by two helicopters.
The first helicopter seemed to be the local police, the second was unmarked and much larger and seemed to be military. The police helicopter moved away quickly once the "military" helicopter arrived. The objects appeared to be balls of fire with a red color following almost identical paths which were a straight line.
They frequently stopped in midair, then continued on. They were silent and the only noise heard was from the helicopters. These objects were spotted by three different people at the same time outside of our work place.
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Diamond-shaped configuration of lights flying southeast at high speed Was driving on Stadium Drive and W Pensacola Street-- since I was in the car, I couldn't watch the whole time it was visible or take pictures. It was an equilateral diamond with blue and red lights at each vertex, flying southeast at high speed. By the time I pulled into my parking lot about a minute after first seeing it, it was no longer visible.
((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).
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Red orb pulsated moving across sky silently, slowmotion blink/dim/reappeared in line and continued on. Stepped outside of restaurant located near center of city upon crest of large hill while Fast moving clouds reflecting orange light. Lit a cigarette while watching a helicopter leave the area of the hospital traveling south until sound of craft ended.
A short time later, maybe 3 minutes (finishing cigarette,last two inhales) orb appeared in the far east with back drop of orange glow from city lights contrasting a pulsating red orb, moving across sky at approx 1500 feet above the deck with cloud ceiling approximately 500 feet beyond. Kept expecting to see white light from helicopter thinking it had swung around and returned but there was no light coming from this object. It was not making a sound.
Clouds were moving west to east.orb moved east to west. It was NOT any kind of man made craft I had ever seen or witnessed before and changed in shape and dynamic.
it was not a true sphere, shapes formed in the absence of surface as it seemed to pulsate only once! in my presence but continued on.the size of it was about that of a compact car but taller in terms of height, and seemed to be of a deliberate intention. No plane could move this way.
More like a helicopter but what made the hairs on my neck stand up was that the sound I had just experienced never returned like I expected it to and when it was closest to my location I realized this was like no other object I had ever seen in my entire life.it just happened to be in the sky when I looked up. I could not account for 2 hours of my time between clocking out from work and the 10 minute walk to my apartment.
My phone was at 100% charge when I left work, having been on the charger all night, was completely dead when I tried to take pictures.
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2 nights of bright as the moon object and 5 aircraft in night sky after seeing it. On the night of June 29, 2015, I saw a very bright light next to a western star. This light did not appear to move.
I was driving and turned away from it heading to a local pub. The bouncer said he saw the same thing in he western sky at 21:45. I saw it at 22:00.
Tonight on June 30, 2015, I was driving again and saw the same light. Except this time I was able to watch it for a good 15 minutes while I was stopped and at traffic lights. This light was still next to a small star in the sky but the this time I saw this light fade in and out.
When the light went out it was just a faint gray dot in the sky. The light would come back on gradually to get brighter and brighter. I made it to my destination and told everybody what I had just seen for the last two nights.
They (my family) wanted to go outside to see "it". The only thing we got to see is a bunch of aircrafts flying in formation. Three in formation 1 flying off in opposite direction with fast blinking lights at odd speeds.
And one very normal plane going to the airport off from the others. For a total of 5 planes at the same time around the time of 22:10. ((NUFORC Note: We strongly suspect that the two bright objects in the northwestern sky were Venus and Jupiter.
PD)).
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Strange orange light seen in the night sky west of Tallahassee, FL My girlfriend and I were sitting on the front porch of our home located on the western side of Tallahassee, FL. I was on my phone, looking up something on the internet, when she asks me, “What’s that?” I turn around to see an orange light in the sky. From where I was sitting it was moving right to left, seemingly in the direction of Panama City.
At first, I didn’t think it was out of the ordinary. But then we saw lights dropping from object. I pulled up the camera on my phone and zoomed in while my girlfriend ran inside to get a roommate to come see.
I tapped the video button on my phone to switch from camera to video recorder and I assumed it was recording but unfortunately you have to hit the red circle and I was too focused in on the object to notice that it didn’t record. While zoomed in, the object appeared to be oblong in shape, but it was hard to tell as the resolution wasn’t that great. The part that really intrigued me was the lights that fell from the object.
It reminded me of molten metal, dripping from the object. The lights were exactly the same color as the object, as seemed to burn out shortly after separating from the object. After watching the object for 2 or 3 minutes, it started to dim, and dim some more until it was gone.
It disappeared before it should have left my line of sight.
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stationary star-like like directly overhead at least 50,000 ft , photos reveal round shadow object and contrail I was outside having a cup of coffee enjoying the morning sun before going to work. I was doing some stretching and yoga and laid back and looked up at the clear blue sky. A star like object caught my eye.
At first I thought it was a jet at very high altitude with the sun's light was reflecting off of it. However, it was not moving. It was stationary at very high altitude.
Not flickering, not flashing. no changing color. Just a star like object stationary for at least 30 min.
During this time I called Tallahasse airport and asked to speak to the tower. After being shuffled around and having to tell my story severaL times, I spoke to the tower and they did not have anything on radar. I also took approximately 10 photos with my smartphone.
I could not tell if I had got the object in the photos but I did notice while taking them that a contrail was present in my camera screen, but not visible to my naked eye. I then went in to work, and looked at the photos and saw the pictures did capture the contrail, and a couple did have the star object but only visble on greater magnification, although somewhat fuzzy. Most interesting are the round shadow like objects captured in the photos but not visible to my naked eye.
I also captured a jet in one photo and it does give one a bit of a perspective. Could it have been Venus, Jupiter, or Saturn visible at 8:30 am on a bright sunny morning? I dont know. I think it was really a object at very high altitute maybe 50-100,000 ft.
There were a couple of jets that went by during the event and this object was higher. The contrail and round grey shadow objects appear to be at different altitudes. I dont think they are ghost images or reflections off of something.
I took several photos with them in the photos and they are in the same location (using the playfort fabric roof as a reference point). I am sure I moved around and took each photo from a slightly different location, yet the objects appear in the same location in the sky. Maybe you guys have someone that can analyze the photos.
Tallahassee, 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 | 14 reported sightings | 20.00% of all reports |
Triangle | 11 reported sightings | 15.71% of all reports |
Sphere | 8 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
Other | 5 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Unknown | 4 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
Circle | 4 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
Diamond | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
Changing | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
Chevron | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
Fireball | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
Cylinder | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
Disk | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
Oval | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
Egg | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
Flash | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
Teardrop | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
Cigar | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
Tallahassee, 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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December | 8 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
January | 8 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
June | 8 reported sightings | 11.43% of all reports |
April | 7 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
February | 7 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
November | 7 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
September | 6 reported sightings | 8.57% of all reports |
May | 6 reported sightings | 8.57% of all reports |
March | 4 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
October | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
August | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
July | 3 reported sightings | 4.29% of all reports |
Tallahassee, 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 | 13 reported sightings | 18.57% of all reports |
Tuesday | 12 reported sightings | 17.14% of all reports |
Wednesday | 12 reported sightings | 17.14% of all reports |
Thursday | 12 reported sightings | 17.14% of all reports |
Saturday | 9 reported sightings | 12.86% of all reports |
Sunday | 7 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Friday | 5 reported sightings | 7.14% of all reports |
Tallahassee, 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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01/07/99 | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
02/18/11 | 2 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
04/25/08 | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
08/26/13 | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
12/09/19 | 1 reported sightings | 1.43% of all reports |
Tallahassee, 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 | 33 reported sightings | 47.14% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 11 reported sightings | 15.71% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 11 reported sightings | 15.71% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 7 reported sightings | 10.00% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 4 reported sightings | 5.71% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Tallahassee, Florida
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