All Reported UFO Sightings in Valrico, Florida

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No rocket launches on the 19th.

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I saw towards the E a light that resembled the space shuttle flames when we used to see when it went up. At around 9:00 PM EST, I had seen a light that resembled the space shuttle going up into space. My wife was taking her brother and mother home down the street and I called her up to see if she could see anything.

She said she saw 6 objects and one was standing still in the air and the others were going fast in and out of different altitudes. There was no sound of a motor or engine. None of us could explain what we saw.

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Awakened by a bright light outside window Sharing this for a dear friend, On the morning of 2/2/22 at around 5:45 AM She was woken from sleep by a light bright enough to make her think some one turned on the light in the room. There was an object in the sky she immediately grabbed the phone and went outside to take photos, she also retrieved a camera and took a few more. The object was stationary and oriented to the east of her location.

She observed for 10-15 minutes then went inside for a brief moment when she returned it was gone. Location is Valrico FL, in the Tampa area. there is an AFB base to the north the ocean to the west.

She has witnessed Drones also and "dark" helicopters in her area before. appreciate any thoughts on this First four with cellphone, The others Nikon P1000. Zoom in on the small ones and you will see a very interesting object with a corona surrounding it.

Looking for any information as to what this might have been. Thank you for you consideration in this matter.

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Clear beautiful night sky with less than a half moon. Bike riding with my kids and looked up. It literally stopped me in my tracks.

A perfect row of formation lights in a line moving across the nights sky. By the time we stopped to look up they were already moving so Im not sure how many I missed but we did catch 10-15 lights. The last one in the row were two gliding next to each other.

They were very high up. They looked like stars on a string silently gliding across the sky in front of the moon. It was hands down the most mind blowing screen to witness especially when you see the videos online half believing them to actually seeing it for yourself.

My son got it on Snapchat (of course) I tried to record it but I'm currently regretting my decision to keep my S8 phone. As you can guess I barely was able to catch anything. I always tell my kids to look up and say "hi moon!" Now it has so much more meaning to us.

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Four circular UFOs spotted over central Florida. Around 12:40 PM on 12/15/19 I was standing on the patio of my backyard while I let my dog outside, the sky was clear and blue, no clouds and from where I was standing the sun was not causing any glares or obstructions in my vision. As I was looking at the sky for a moment just taking in the nice weather (I live in Florida and a nice, cool day is rare even in December), I noticed four circular shaped objects with a disk-like ring attached to the center of the craft flying completely smoothly, until one started slightly moving up around the other, and after that they disappeared completely.

They started right above the tree line, then gradually moved up until they disappeared. I stared at the sky for another couple of minutes and they didn't return. I know they weren't birds because they were clearly metallic and were moving much too quickly and too smoothly to be birds, and I know they weren't jets because they were completely silent, and at one point in the ! 30 seconds or so that I was watching them, they got very close to each other, too close for jets to fly.

Plus, my dog paid no attention the them, and usually with airplanes or jets, she gets nervous when she hears the sound. Since my phone was in my hand I took a picture, and attempted to take a video, but my iPhone 7 has terrible photo quality, and even worse video quality. Its hard to make them out but you can see in the photo and also slightly in the video that they are not birds, planes, jets, or anything of the sort.

I have never seen anything like this, and I've never had any sort of experiences with extraterrestrial life or spacecraft, so I sent the picture and video to one of my friends and she said that from the photos, they look more pyramid shaped, but in person they looked very circular. I live in a small town in central Florida, about an hour southeast of Tampa, and I've never heard any talk of UFO sightings or anything like that, but outside of the suburban ar! eas is mostly woods, fields, and open land.

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3 orbs in a triangular shape that were flickering orange, red, and green, hovering in same spot. 3 orbs in a triangular shape. Flickering orange, red, and green.

Hovering in same spot for duration of visibility.

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There were two standing figures and then flew away. On the evening of May 05, 2018, I couldn't get the dog's attention but I took a picture of her anyways. I then took a picture of the window because I thought the crystal looked pretty.

For some reason I took a picture of the yard by the fence but couldn't see anything in my phone screen because it was too bright so I adjusted my feet and turned to the right and took another picture. Realizing I couldn't see anything on my phone screen still, I just gave up and went inside. I later looked at the photos and that's when I noticed the dog staring into a beam, two white figures standing by the fence and a formation of clouds flying away and over the bench.

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Large, low flying, silent, stealthy boomerang shaped object passed over Valrico Florida I was outside having a smoke, and happened to be looking upward watching for shooting stars. I had seen three meteors earlier in the evening, including two immediately before the sighting, and thought maybe we were having a meteor shower. I noticed something very faint, but large, moving across the sky.

At first I wasn't sure if I was seeing my own smoke reflecting in the patio lights, but as it crossed overhead it became obvious that it was some sort of object. The object came from the north crossed directly over my head, and continued southbound. It was extremely hard to see, and was just a slightly lighter shade then the surrounding sky.

I have the impression that it was tan in color, though I can't say for certain that I saw a color. It was boomerang shaped, and the thought of a large v formation of birds did enter my mind. However, as it flew over, and my eyes became more adjusted to it, it was easier to see it was a large solid mass.

It made no sounds, had no lights, and silently glided across the sky from my 11 o'clock, over my head, to me losing view of it behind my house at about my 3 o'clock position. It did this in about 10 to 15 seconds. It was moving about the speed of a conventional jet flying at low altitude.

From my perspective, its size was roughly similar to standing at the end of a runway and watching the wings of a DC9 fly over. I have nothing to reference for altitude other then it appeared to be below the scattered cloud cover. According to Weather Underground, the current cloud conditions are Scattered 1300 to 3100 feet.

My dog was outside with me, and though I was too busy watching the object to check to see if she visually noticed it, she didn't bark or act out. I could have moved to look around the side of the house and observe the object for a longer period, but to be honest, my gut instinct was that I needed to get back inside rapidly. I am an ex-aviation professional, and have experience with nighttime aircraft identification.

I have observed many astronomical and meteorological anomalies, and I have never seen anything like this. USCENTCOM is nearby, as well as Avon Park bombing range, so its not uncommon to see a wide variety of aircraft in this area at both day and night. I have no idea if this was something military, but I do suspect from its stealth that it was not something that was meant to be seen.

Something about the way that it moved, its silence, and the surrealism of the situation was eerie, and still has me upset hours later.

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Large Disk shape, changing shape and color and smaller objects flying around it. I was at home going upstairs to bed around 9:10 pm. I looked out the window at the top of the stairs and saw a bright white light pulsating.

I went to my room to get my binoculars. I saw a round disk shape that I was thinking looked like a holographic form because of all the tiny white lights and connecting lines of white. It was hovering over and began changing colors, red, green, white.

I yelled for my daughter downstairs. She also viewed the object. We then went outside in the front yard.

I looked through the binoculars while she was trying to take pictures and record off my phone. The object was higher than a plane ( one of our videos has a plane flying underneath the obiect) and was higher than a cloud , but not as high as a star or the moon. We took turns looking.

I observed it changing shapes from circle to triangle. It was moving up and down and would also go from side to side. I would see it spilt and was describing as pie shapes, it would split ! and then pull back together as a solid circle shape.

We watched for about 45 mins and decided to go inside. I continued watching upstairs out the window where I originally saw it. It continued doing the same actions but the shapes were changing into like a fish shape and what seemed like a cylinder shape.

The only thing I could see was lights connected by a white line, these are the shapes I am describing. I continued to watch from there until about 10:20 pm. The object then zipped further away in the distance toward the south and out of my view.

I have a big window facing South and was able to view the object from there. It was further away in the distance. I continued to watch the same patterns, but I was able to see a separate white light moving around the bigger circle, this light had even tinier white lights falling down from the sky.

I continued to watch till 12am when it was even further in distance and harder to see with the binoculars. Daughter Cassie’s detailed description: It was about 9pm on 1/8/2017 I was downstairs watching Tv. My mom went upstairs for bed.

About 5 min later she’s yelling my name telling me to come upstairs. She said she saw a ufo outside! So I took a look in the binoculars and got focused on what she was looking at! Once I did I saw a holographic diamond shape in the sky! I looked around at all the other bright lights I saw in the sky of course because I was really wasn't believing what I was seeing! Nothing else up there looked like this so We went outside to get a better look! I watched and watched this thing for a good hr.! it was just hovering over one area until it disappeared and went to a new spot about 2 hrs later.

While looking at this threw the binoculars I could see it rapidly changing colors. I’m not sure how else to describe it other than the colors just blended together & you could see all of them at one time. It also kept changing shapes.

I’m not sure if it was turning and I was just seeing a different side of it or if it was actually changing the shape of its self. I did see something open up from the bottom and a bright ray of purple light came out of the bottom of it! It did not last long though I would say it was there for what felt about a minute then the purple slowly disappeared. When looking at this threw the binoculars I did get a little freaked out & thought something was watching me so I felt I needed to stop looking.

When looking at this with your naked eye it was just a really bright ! light. While recording it on the phone with no flash on it was a bright light that quickly moved from one spot to another without any explanation. I have never seen anything like this before! it was absolutely amazing to see! At one point an airplane flew by and this object was above the plane level but below the stars! I later looked up imagines of a satellite & this object looked nothing like any satellite!.

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Blueish green light rapid unnaturally directions and an orangeish red light lands in residential area Witnessed a traveling blueish green light move unnaturally in multiple directions in seemingly straight and very direct lines, moving vertically and then a transition to horizontal movement. In the opposite direction, an orangeish red light began dropping straight down. Went past tree tops and presumably landed nearby over a field in a residential area.

((NUFORC Note: Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD)).

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Audible humming vacuum sound covered by clouds with orange glow Huge humming sound only audible if outside. Not the sound of a plane or jet. More of a vacuum hum.

Clouds covered what was making it with a slight orange glow to the clouds. After ten minutes the clouds and orange glow disappeared. If I were to imagine what a spacecraft sounded like, that would be it.

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Strange group of lights over Lithia, Florida Looking towards the southern sky, large round bright yellow lights appeared. Moving from the east to the west. Some of the lights travelled in sets of two or three at a time at varying speeds.

No noise. Watched the procession of lights about 10-15 min till we lost sight of them past the trees.

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West to East flight pattern of 12 Unknown glowing objects. The Events witnessed took place February 26th, 2011. Between 8:30pm – 8:50pm Eastern Standard Time.

Valrico, FL USA Photographs and videos taken were shot between 8:37-8:47pm EST. We returned back to my parent’s house after a birthday dinner party just after 8pm. My father stepped out on the rear patio to have a smoke break.

Shortly after, he hollered for my husband and brother to come quick and look at this. He exclaimed, “What the hell is that?” This peaked our interest. These objects appeared to be burning or on fire and made absolutely no noise, no prop wash, no piston engine sound, and no jet wash, no recognizable navigational red and green lights.

They appear to be on some sort of flight path following interstate I-4 West coming out of Tampa’s Gulf area heading east. These objects could clearly be seen breaking the Western Horizon but never met the Eastern Horizon. They seem to head upward & fade out and away.

The first sighting was of a cluster of 3, in a triangular formation; once the last of the 3 faded away, 2 more broke the horizon evenly spaced out, then accompanied by 1 more, totaling 4 in a straight line, fading into outer space, followed by another series of 4. Following the same flight path and pattern. When viewed with Binoculars the objects were in the shape of seashells with the bottom illuminated.

They had constant luminosity and appeared to be at a uniform altitude and heading. They all seem to gain altitude at the same location as they advance skyward out of sight. In conclusion, after contacting the sheriff’s office and local news channels only ONE other call was made about this phenomenon.

Several reporters were sent images and video but none have responded to date. Several remarks were made to sort of “lighten” the situation by such individuals. We also called several family members and friends that would’ve been in the flight path; however none were able to see these objects, but they should’ve been able to.

Only one of the 6 witnesses, who was 1st to see the objects has seen a ufo sighting over lake Erie Ohio in the 60s as a child. it is my opinion that all persons present are credible witnesses ((NUFORC Note: Possible "Chinese" lanterns, we suspect. PD)).

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translucent pink orange colors, bird shape, 5 of them making a formation of a triangle as they move foward on a swimming motion, Today August 30, 2010 clear sky and many stars, the location of the incident was in Valrico, Florida. About 5:15 A.M this morning.

I went outside to my courtyard to drink my coffee and admired the sky like I usually do. I have been starring at the sky for couple of minutes, when I saw what appears to me as clouds approaching but I realized that it was more like a flock of birds flying high in the sky,(high up like a cloud) about 5 of them crossing the sky from west to east forming a like triangle. Each bird shape appears to be like three times the size of the moon when you see it from the ground; the stars appear very small next to each of them in size like dots.

What I found to be strange was the color and the way they moved forward. Their color was like the fire from a lighter; translucent with a pink-orange tone the only thing I can compare them to is to clouds in the horizon when the morning is breaking through. However keep in mind that is was still dark outside, only the moon and the stars shining.

The way they moved was like it was gliding in the sky, like swimming in the ocean. They were out of sight in about 10 seconds. It was an incredible!.

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A loud strange noise and a blue beam of light showed at 8:15 PM. There was a big noise coming from the east. After my friend and I heard the noise a big blue beam of light lit the whole sky.

The exact time when we saw the blue beam of light and heard the noise it was 8:15.

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Cigar shaped object with no wings following Commercial Jet airliner. I came home from my office at about 5:00PM - at about 5:30 my wife and I were outside sitting by our pond and as I leaned back in my chair I looked upward and saw a Commercial Jet and following the plane was a cigar shaped object( Silver in color) about half the size of the plane. I said to my wife, "That looks odd because the object following the plane has no wings!" The object appeared to be about 100-150 yards behind the plane.

We watched for about 45 seconds or so until they were out of sight. ((NUFORC Note: Witness indicates that date is approximate. PD)).

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It looked too large & bright for a star, then it split in 2, and when it flew over me I could see it was triangular with 4 lights. This evening around 10pm I went out to my backyard to smoke a cigarette when I noticed a very bright light in the night sky to the north of where I was standing. At first I thought it was a star, but it seemed way too large and bright.

The object appeared to be stationary at this time. I did see an airplane flying by in a NW direction, at what appeared to be a much lower altitude than the large light. By comparison it's lights seemed exponentially smaller that the bright object in the sky that I was focused on.

The two did not seem to interact in any way. As I watched it began to look more like 2 stars very close together, then the space between the white lights appeared to grow larger. When the horizontal distance between them reached a certain size, the object began to move south toward where I stood.

At this point I knew it was not stars, so I thought it might be an airplane, but it seemed strange that it had hovered in one spot for so long before moving, not to mention the way the lights went from looking like one light only to looking like 2. As it flew over me relatively slowly, I could see it was a matte silver color, and triangle shaped with 2 larger bright white lights approximately in the center of it and 2 smaller ones that were closer together and directly behind the 2 larger ones. It did not have the flashing red or blue lights that you see on airplanes.

These lights did not blink at all. I think I could hear it as it flew above me, but the noise was very low, not nearly as loud as any aircraft I've ever experienced that was flying that low. Also the sound was more of a deep low hum that the usual roar of an engine.

And I think I almost felt the hum more than I could hear it. As it flew over the house. I ran back in the house, through the living room and out the front door.

I should have been able to still see it somewhere in the sky, but it was nowhere to be seen. It was moving rather slowly when it flew above me, and it only took me a few seconds to get out the front door.! From my front yard the part of the sky that's visible goes on very far in every direction, there are no tall buildings blocking the view for miles on every side.

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Strange Light In The Sky On the night of October 31, 2008 at about 7:00 P.M., I was trick-or-treating with my daughter, husband, friend, and father inlaw.

We were proceeding down the street, and my friend and I were looking at the stars, because the sky was especially clear that night. I was looking into the sky, when I noticed a light that seemed to be moving like a plane would, but was not blinking. It was moving at a fast pace through the sky, then stopped dead in its tracks and shot directly into the darkness and dissapeared.

My friend just so happened to be looking at it at the same time and witnessed it as well. We started freaking out because we both had never seen anything like that before. We started discussing what we had saw and that it could not have been a plane because it was not blinking, couldnt have been a shooting star because they do not stop before dissappearing into the sky.

I was a skeptic before that night and now belive in UFO's.

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Pink light does high speed flight from Tampa to Kennedy Space Center 5 minutes before shuttle Endeavor lands. Peter: Since 1984 I have been broadcasting space shuttle launches on a network of radio stations across the country. I have media credentials issued by NASA and am considered an authority on space hardware and systems.

The UFO phenomena has always interested me but until 8:21:28 PM, March 26, 2008, I had never seen one. I have a whole slew of computers and monitors in my home studio from which I broadcast the launches when I can’t get to the Kennedy Space Center. Upon entry and landing I plot all the trajectories and landing paths.

On the 26th of March the shuttle Endeavor was waved off the first landing attempt due to weather conditions being unfavorable. That attempt would have brought the shuttle in over Miami and up the east coast of Florida. The second attempt meant an atmospheric entry interface and landing approach directly over my head in southeastern Hillsborough County (Tampa Bay).

The evening was perfect for satellite watching; the weather was cool and dry and the sky completely clear. I had already plotted the tracks for the ATV and ISS as well as STS-123. The ATV was in the same orbit as the ISS only about 1,200 miles ( 5 minutes) in front it.

Having just undocked from the space station, the shuttle was also in the same orbit except about 326 miles (1 minute) behind the ISS. So, orbital mechanics being what they are, there is absolutely no way for the shuttle to ever overtake either the ISS or the ATV. The ATV was scheduled to go over my house at 8:20 PM and the ISS at 8:25 PM.

The shuttle, which by that time, would have been entering the atmosphere and slowing considerably, would be going over at about 8:33:40 PM on its way to an 8:39 PM landing at the cape. Gazing intently at the patch of sky dictated by my computer, we could not see the ATV, it was just too small and dark. At 8:21:28 we noticed a pinkish light moving across the sky.

Initially I thought it was the ATV, albeit late. Then the pink light veered off course and silently zipped in a highly controlled movement across our heads (several neighbors had come out to watch, too) to the southeast and then turned toward the northeast as if headed toward the Kennedy Space Center which is directly across the state from us. It made the trip from right above us to the vicinity of KSC in about 1 to 2 seconds.

I knew then that the object was not the ATV so my thoughts went to the shuttle. Problem being that at the altitude the shuttle flies by the time it gets to Tampa we get twin sonic booms off the nose and tail. This “UFOish” object produced no sonic boom despite the fact that it seemed to have been moving at thousands of miles an hour.

Just as I was pondering the pink light, the ISS went by overhead at 17,500 mph in its orbit. Very bright but, compared to what I had just seen, laboriously slow. It took the ISS a good 2-3 minutes to move across the sky compared to only a second or two for the pink light.

I have never seen anything travel that fast, including supersonic jets at closed to the public media events. I went back into the house and NASA-TV’s George Diller was saying that the shuttle was “…now just 9 minutes from landing at KSC and about 150 miles off the coast of Florida over the Gulf of Mexico.” Going back outside, sure enough, right on schedule, I was greeted by the twin sonic booms that must have rattled windows all over the Bay area.

The shuttle, however, was too dark to be seen without night vision goggles to pick up the residual heat from its reentry. Having watched many launches from my front yard, I have a keen awareness of exactly where the Kennedy Space Center is from my front door… exactly 142.6 miles to the parking lot at the VAB.

I’m not saying it was alien, I don’t know what the little pink light was, but, whatever it was, it was not a plane in the conventional sense of that word. At first I thought its altitude was orbital but as it moved away from the orbit of the ISS, first to the southeast and then curving around to a northeast heading, it didn’t seem to be all that high. If I had to guess I would say maybe about 10,000 to 15,000 feet.

Well, that’s about it. Enjoy your silo.

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Do Satellites Stop then Change Directions? Saturday March 17th 2007 around 9:30pm give or take, I and two other people witnessed what we thought was a satellite tracking slowing across the nights sky. We watched this object (that looked like a small star) as it made its way across the sky, after about a minute, it came to a complete (or looked like a complete from our distance) stop in the sky, sat there for approx. 2 minutes then went in a 90degree different direction as we watched the object move in this new direction the light became dimmer and dimmer as if it was heading away from earth until it disappeared from our site.

Is this possibly a type of satellite? Any explanation would be very appreciated, I have seen satellites before but never have seen one stop then switch directions. I am very interested in knowing what it is. Thanks.