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Florida UFO Sightings Analysis
We analyzed all 8,252 UFO sighting reports in Florida to identify possible patterns and gain insight into the phenomenon:
- The most commonly reported UFO shape or appearance is "light" (1,534 reports, 18.59% of total).
- December is the month with the most reported UFO sightings (803 reports, 9.73% of total).
- Saturday is the weekday with the most reported UFO sightings (1,451 reports, 17.58% of total).
- 04/30/20 is the single date with the most UFO sightings reported (29 reports, 0.35% of total).
- 2014 is the year with the most UFO sightings reported (648 reports, 7.85% of total).
- Sightings occur more often during the night, between the hours of 20:00 - 23:59 (3,885 reports, 47.08% of total).
20 Most Recent UFO Sightings in Florida
These 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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Appears to be reflection off spider web.
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Triangle object, 16 visible lights, craft left line of sight without flying over horizon, instead appearing to leave orbit Flight Direction: From Air Force Special Operations Command Hurlburt Field heading westbound until leaving orbit. Object Details: The object observed during the sighting appeared to be triangle-shaped and seamlessly blended into the night sky. It was distinguished by approximately 16 lights closely resembling starlight, making the object inconspicuous to casual observation.
Notably, the object exceeded the size of a commercial Airbus. Details of Locomotion: The object exhibited slow, consistent movement, unlike any conventional aircraft. Despite its seemingly leisurely pace, the object traversed a substantial distance towards the conclusion of the sighting, appearing to diminish in size to a single point of light.
Notably, the speed at which it moved suggested capabilities beyond those of traditional aircraft. Remarkably, the object emitted no discernible sound throughout the duration of the sighting and appeared to maintain an altitude of approximately 8,000 feet. Additionally Hurlbut Field Security Forces was also notified of this event for public safety and the safety of our military complex.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
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Object moved at high rate of speed from SE to NW approximately 30000 ft in the air 4-5 miles away. On 04/12/2024 a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off was scheduled at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:40 p.m.
EDT (0140 UTC). The sky was very clear to observe the lift off. It was a Friday night.
The payload was 23 satellites for the company’s Starlink internet service. I position myself in my backyard. I was standing facing northeast to observe the launch.
I was using a Glassowl Binoculars Elite Creative XP IR Day/Night vision to observe and record the launch I had recently purchased in May 2023. Upon completing the video recording of the launch at approximately 9:44 PM (UTC 1:44) I could hear a commercial jet airliner coming toward me, so I turned to the southeast to observe it and video tape it. The jet was approximately 4 to 5 miles to the southwest of my location at approximately 20,000 feet heading northwest about 400 MPH or a little more.
My angle was 65 to 75 Degrees. As I was observing and videotaping it, I observed another object or craft coming towards the jet at a very fast speed heading in the same direction. It was about a half a mile southwest of the jet and a few thousand feet higher from my location.
My distance and depth perception can be inaccurate from my observation of it. I did not have my glasses on while I was using the binoculars. I focused my view finder to observe the object to obtain the best video I could.
The object or craft moved several thousand MPH passing the jet in a northwesterly direction. It appeared to shine intermittently as if the sun was flickering off it. No visible navigational lights blinking such as an aircraft would have.
It appeared smaller in size as a dime. I couldn’t observe any structure such as wings or tail such as an aircraft. The commercial jet did not deviate from its course as the object passed to its port side at a higher altitude.
I am current a MADAR Operator nod 76. FL. No alerts discovered.
I continued to video the object until it went behind trees in the backyard next to the canal running east to west behind my residence. No noise was heard, or any emissions were observed coming from the object. Palm Beach International airport is to the east of my residence where I have observed many aircraft departing and approaching over ten years living at my current residence.
I have prior military experience serving the U.S. Navy for 6 years and am familiar with aircraft.
I am also a retired law enforcement officer of 23 years. Reported to MUFON on 04/25/2024.
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Didn’t actually see it real time. Appeared in picture I took of the solar eclipse behind heavy clouds Green boomerang shape with multiple white lights.
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A blinking green light moving rapidly horizontally from west to east and then east to west I was sitting on my back pool area, facing south, talking to my son on the phone when something caught my attention. It was a bright green light moving rapidly from my right to left. My first split-second thought was that it was a meteor or shooting star.
I am a retired air traffic controller and have observed quite a few things over my decades of service, none of which I have not been able to explain. Space junk burning up, meteorites, etc. In a second or two the light blinked off and back on as it traveled perfectly horizontally, very rapidly.
No aircraft other than a fighter jet could be moving that fast, close, and low but there was no sound and only the one green light. I should have observed a red light if it were an aircraft traveling from my right to left. The light disappeared behind my neighbor's trees and I kept looking for it to reappear past the trees.
As I was describing this to my son, the object reappeared, this time moving east to west and somwhat closer to me. Same thing - rapidly moving, slowly blinking green light and not a sound. I opened my phone camera, preparing to take a video if it came by a third time.
After about three minutes searching for it, it gave up. The sun had set but it was still quite bright to the west.
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Extraordinarily fast, unbelievably quiet, whitish kind of translucent. There was a Launch that went off at 5:12 AM. The rocket left the pad heading south east towards the Bahamas.
I’ve seen dozens of launches at this point. we were about to leave The area around 5:25 AM. It was a clear night Stars were visible.
With our backs to the ocean, I was looking up at the stars I was pointing with my finger and while pointing up, I turned back around towards the ocean when something fast was moving slightly off the beach, 200ish feet above the water. it was cloud-like, translucent, the size of bus moving south to north towards the cocoa beach pier. Completely silent, moving at break neck speed and it simply vanished, gone out of sight.
If you watch the first 30 seconds of this video, this is what it look like https://youtu.be/dbnHAoJ-my?si=_xBL_CC2KKLYt8Ln \.
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At tree top level, no sound,moving maybe 40mph,pink white blue foggy look Sitting on porch, 2 houses away teardrop object moving approximately 40 mph. It was at treetop level. It was large and made absolutely no noise.
It looked as if it were translucent with white, pink, bluish fog over it. I watched for 5 seconds till it disappeared in the landscape behind trees and houses.
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Traveled the whole view of the sky in a second or two I was laying in my hammock as I do looking up admiring soaring buzzards, high cirrus clouds, and vapor trails. The jetliner flight paths are north and south, and there is a constant stream of travel as is expected for North Florida. So I'm checking out the sky when my eye picks up this line of movement from west to east.
The sky was brilliant blue today but the orb was almost the same brightness as the sky only the orb was whitish creamy colored. There was a trail that followed the orb but steady faded away at the same rate the orb traveled. It made no noise and traveled the whole sky view in a second or two.
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Walking dogs with my wife, and this weird formation floated across the sky and looked like it was morphing. I was walking my dogs with my wife before work. When my wife first noticed this weird formation floating across the sky.
At first I thought it was ballons, but the object stayed steady at the same height and seemed to morph.
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Eight lights abreast flying northward Eight faint blue/white lights flying northward at a fast speed. Lights were abreast with the westernmost being slightly ahead and the easternmost being slightly behind. From the time I first saw them to when they disappeared in the distance was about 10 seconds.
The lights made no sound. About 10 minutes after the sighting, my eyes began to burn like I had been gazing at the sun. This slowly subsided over the course of an hour.
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We saw the object approaching our location from the north east at a high speed Me and my daughter saw the object approach from the north east at a moderately high speed high in the sky, and had a long trail that was symmetrical to the end of the triangle and the trail behind it had lines that were parallel, symmetrical, and dimension, unlike any falling star or meteor trail that you would expect the photo shows the object with the color of the trail that was following it.
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I was driving north bound on 95 coming home from a camping trip and my son and I saw a floating orb. No mistaking it as balloon or plan See above. 200 ft above ground max.
Using apple iPhone 14 Pro. 1080p 24mm f stop 1.78 59.
2 frames per second. It was a metal sphere floating in thin air. 8ft in circumference.
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Three white lights that moved together When I first noticed the lights, they were almost directly overhead and moved west southwest until I they disappeared behind my neighbors large oak tree. When I snapped the picture it was probably at 40 to a 45 degree angle. I thought I was videotaping but in my rush to get it , I forgot to put my camera on video.
Also, unlike Starlink satellites lights that follow each other, these lights were side by side like the lights on plane wings but the evenly spaced and there were three lights, not blinking.
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Saw Orb shaped object over water I witnessed this Black orb shaped object about 1/4-1/2 mile away over Tampa Bay and I'd estimate maybe about 100 feet in the air and approximately 6-10 feet round. I'd say the total length of sighting was 1-2 mins. At first I looked at it when it I thought maybe it was a balloon but quickly determined it wasn't because if its movement.
The wind was blowing straight into my face but this object started moving away from my location. At first it was closer to me but it started to move away from me due west across the Bay at a pretty good speed. It got maybe 2-3 miles away and stopped and then descended straight down into the water but I didn't see any splash or anything.
It seemed to just merge with the water but it was very far away at that point so was hard to tell. The object also kind of shimmered some at times but it's movement seemed to be intelligently controlled and not random. I managed to take a zoomed in picture of it but I didn't even think to take a video because I was looking at it trying to figure out what it was.
At that distance my phone video probably wouldn't of shown much detail anyway.
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We watched the space x crew 8 launch. After we saw 4 orbs of light. We saw 4 orbs of light after the space x crew 8 launch.
We saw the nebula effect come and go. Then 4 orbs of light came down as if they had been watching the launch. I at first thought they were space x satellites but then they moved about like nothing I had seen before.
They made sharp u turns and buzzed about almost like flys. They then moved off to the south west and out of sight.
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Bright orange trail which then seemed to disappear, and reappear as a milky or cloudy orb in the sky still traveling South.lost sight. Around 6:45 pm saw a very distinct rocket-like object trailing a very bright orange/redish trail.
It was traveling slowly across sky over ocean heading South. After a minute or two, it seemed to burn out/disappear completely, but a minute or so more the object I saw became a still traveling cloudy like orb, somewhat of a large oval blob pattern, still moving South.
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Had foggy gas following it and was moving super slow. Like hovering over in front of my house. At first I thought it was a plane but I took another look out my window and then it had this weird orange spiral thing come out of it so I thought it was a meteor or something.
It was moving really really slow. Then I thought okay this is awesome I’m witnessing a meteor falling. It somehow disappeared.
So I was like okay maybe I’m seeing things apparently? Brushed it off a bit but I kept looking outside only to find that same exact moving thing appear but this time it was closer. And changed from blinking bright red/orange to blinking white lights surrounding the sphere and it somehow changed size because it was MASSIVE. I thought holy shit this is weird.
I ran into my kitchen because it looked like it was descending and coming closer to my house. Thank god my mom and my brother came home as this was happening because once they walked inside the door that moving thing disappeared once I had them look outside. They told me they saw something moving but that they really couldn’t figure out what it was.
Before any of this happened, like 1 or 2 hours before we had a strange bird flying frantically around my front door like it didn’t know which direction to go.
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White circle met up with 2 more white circles, formed a triangle, flew upward into the sky Sitting on my balcony on that rainy cloudy day, I closed my eyes then opened them and saw a white ball flying across the sky. It was flying too fast, and didn’t have any characteristics of a bird, and it was too circular and didn’t have any flashing lights like a plane would. The white ball flew from the right towards the left from my view, probably flying N, or NE through the sky.
As I watched it, from the left side towards where the ball was flying, 2 more white circles came down from the cloudy skies and stopped midair waiting for the 3rd (original ball I spotted) to rendezvous with them. The two that came down, swooped down really fast but stopped on a dime, and floated in the sky like a colon(:). The original ball flew towards the now 2 perfectly still floating balls, and stopped midair also, the change in velocity was abrupt and precise, forming a triangle.
Now as a triangle, they flew at an incredible speed I never seen before, from their still position it quickly flew to the right and dipped downward towards the ground and immediately turned upwards and flew into the cloudy sky. Again, when it flew off as a triangle, I never seen anything move as fast as it did. From a perfect standstill to flying away into the sky was less than 5 seconds.
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Me and my family were out on a walk. At the end of the meaningful walk me and my dad looked up and it zoomed, stopped, waved and left. That day we decided to go out a little earlier for our walk and a whole synchronistic situation occurred that seemed "set-up" mainly to give my sister closure about something that's been tormenting her in our temporary stay at this place (it had to do with outside domestic cats being neglected).
After all of that was resolved I felt it was best to comfort my mom and sister for the hard decisions they had to make. During that my dad who never entertains spiritual or paranormal phenomena started repeatedly saying something along the lines of "Man, that must've been the universe handing us a cat on a platter. That's crazy.
". I entertained that idea because I am well aware of synchronicity and how that stuff is on purpose, but not in the same way that say you deciding to prepare a meal is on purpose. A higher purpose if you will.
When we arrived back at our house I was just looking at the cloudy yet bright sky at about 6:30 PM and something came from the clouds over head all the way over to the right of the sky and I quickly got my dad's attention. He first wrote it off as a plane but then it started to move across the entire right side of the cloud cieling in a second or two, entirely silently. The orb then stopped in the middle right on top of us and then he said "OK that can't be a plane.
That's so weird.". I then decided to wave at it and said "Hi.
" and it then started bobbing up and down (along the north and south respectively, not up and down altitude wise). Keep in mind this was entirely silent. It then stopped and we're both going "wow", I tried to send as close I can get to a feeling of love back to it and after a good 20 seconds after that 40 seconds of staying there before I sent the love it zipped off to the left.
At this point my dad lost interest and started walking to the house while saying "That is weird, it doesn't look like a drone either.". I on the other hand kept looking so I see this thing just silently zip to the west side of the sky and for a second or so it blinked out of existence with nothing left behind it.
At least nothing was visible, it was either a frequency shift into another EM layer, a frequency shift into another reality layer or the boring old nuts and bolts "cloaking" description but when it popped back in it resumed it's route right where it left off as it if it were maintaining it's velocity (which would not make sense if it were a physical/material object). It then rose through the clouds never to be seen for the rest of the time me and my familty were staying there.
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First saw orangish white lights rotating or flashing from a distance in the north sky. Thought it was a helicopter or small plane however it did not change position as I approached. I finally got to it and could see it was a large triangle shape.
The moon was full and bright. The lights seemed to be moving in one direction to the right. The object was perfectly still as I passed it and stayed where it was.
It was large but I couldn't get a perspective because I was trying not to drive off the road.
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 | 1,534 reported sightings | 18.59% of all reports |
Circle | 944 reported sightings | 11.44% of all reports |
Fireball | 790 reported sightings | 9.57% of all reports |
Triangle | 661 reported sightings | 8.01% of all reports |
Unknown | 553 reported sightings | 6.70% of all reports |
Sphere | 545 reported sightings | 6.60% of all reports |
Other | 533 reported sightings | 6.46% of all reports |
Disk | 435 reported sightings | 5.27% of all reports |
Oval | 376 reported sightings | 4.56% of all reports |
Changing | 251 reported sightings | 3.04% of all reports |
Formation | 236 reported sightings | 2.86% of all reports |
Cigar | 189 reported sightings | 2.29% of all reports |
Cylinder | 150 reported sightings | 1.82% of all reports |
Rectangle | 146 reported sightings | 1.77% of all reports |
Flash | 123 reported sightings | 1.49% of all reports |
Chevron | 121 reported sightings | 1.47% of all reports |
Diamond | 113 reported sightings | 1.37% of all reports |
Teardrop | 69 reported sightings | 0.84% of all reports |
Egg | 65 reported sightings | 0.79% of all reports |
Orb | 52 reported sightings | 0.63% of all reports |
Cone | 26 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
Cross | 26 reported sightings | 0.32% of all reports |
Star | 10 reported sightings | 0.12% of all reports |
Cube | 2 reported sightings | 0.02% of all reports |
Delta | 2 reported sightings | 0.02% of all reports |
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 | 803 reported sightings | 9.73% of all reports |
January | 774 reported sightings | 9.38% of all reports |
July | 742 reported sightings | 8.99% of all reports |
April | 707 reported sightings | 8.57% of all reports |
October | 705 reported sightings | 8.54% of all reports |
March | 690 reported sightings | 8.36% of all reports |
November | 687 reported sightings | 8.33% of all reports |
June | 659 reported sightings | 7.99% of all reports |
September | 622 reported sightings | 7.54% of all reports |
August | 608 reported sightings | 7.37% of all reports |
February | 593 reported sightings | 7.19% of all reports |
May | 565 reported sightings | 6.85% of all reports |
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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Saturday | 1,451 reported sightings | 17.58% of all reports |
Friday | 1,216 reported sightings | 14.74% of all reports |
Sunday | 1,205 reported sightings | 14.60% of all reports |
Monday | 1,084 reported sightings | 13.14% of all reports |
Thursday | 1,077 reported sightings | 13.05% of all reports |
Tuesday | 1,071 reported sightings | 12.98% of all reports |
Wednesday | 1,051 reported sightings | 12.74% of all reports |
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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04/30/20 | 29 reported sightings | 0.35% of all reports |
03/07/98 | 28 reported sightings | 0.34% of all reports |
04/29/05 | 22 reported sightings | 0.27% of all reports |
07/04/14 | 20 reported sightings | 0.24% of all reports |
07/04/12 | 18 reported sightings | 0.22% of all reports |
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 | 3,885 reported sightings | 47.08% of all reports |
Evening | 16:00 - 19:59 | 1,344 reported sightings | 16.29% of all reports |
Late night | 00:00 - 03:59 | 1,214 reported sightings | 14.71% of all reports |
Early morning | 04:00 - 07:59 | 766 reported sightings | 9.28% of all reports |
Afternoon | 12:00 - 15:59 | 481 reported sightings | 5.83% of all reports |
Morning | 08:00 - 11:59 | 465 reported sightings | 5.63% of all reports |
Years with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per year in Florida.
Cities with Reported UFO Sightings in Florida
These are running counts of how many UFO sighting reports are filed per city in Florida