Disk over Key West, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
Saucer craft with red/green alternating lights on its midsection seen within 500 yards, travelling slowly at first, then vanishes
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center. Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 1973-11-12 → 1973-11-29
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August 28, 2023 · 8:47 PM · LIGHT
Key West, FL
I was riding a scooter back towards my hotel, after having dinner at the Hard Rock restaurant in Key West Florida. I was slowing down to approach a stop sign at the end of Caroline Street, at Whitehall Street. I did not have anything to drink that evening. Cloud cover was low over the entire island. I noticed a large, green light just above the cloud cover, moving very slowly in a North-West direction, towards the Navy Base on Key West. When the light got fairly close to the Navy Base, it abruptly changed course in a South-West direction and sped up to a near-subsonic speed, quickly disappearing over the horizon (behind trees and buildings). Immediately after it disappeared, at least 6 other people on the sidewalk along Caroline Street started exclaiming about the light and it's strange behavior, along with me. We all wondered about it for a while, then continued on our separate ways. During the entire experience, the UFO made absolutely no sounds - the abrupt change of course and speed did not appear to have any affect on the object.
June 27, 2023 · 9:03 PM · SPHERE
Key West, FL
Walking back to our rental along Seaside Dr, I randomly looked behind us towards Cow Key. I saw two orangeish-yellow orbs/lights/circles slowly move up in the sky. They paused, and I don't know how to explain it better but they turned to look at each other. Then moved towards each other and crossed paths. Then darted off in opposite directions and vanished. I immediately yelled to my husband to look. He then saw a blue orb thing dart off from east to west in the same area.
March 13, 2023 · 7:05 PM · SPHERE
Key West, FL
Party of 4 adults in total, my mom's fiance stayed on the beach to watch everyone's things, while myself and my wife and mother walked the pier, when we heard my mom's fiance shout to get our attention. He was pointing up in the sky, I ran over to him and he'd pointed up in the sky facing NE and then other people (6 more people within close vicinity also looked at the object)on the beach also began to look up at the object. It stuck around for at least 5 minutes idle.
October 6, 2020 · 11:38 PM · UNKNOWN
Key West, FL
The UFO we saw was very high in the air, we thought it was a bright star at first. This was a very windy day as Tropical Storm Gamma was passing through, so we are certain this was not a bird or bug - and it was so high in the atmosphere that no creature could survive nor move that fast. The UFO moved lightrning quick in a zigzag from one point to another staying in place for a moment or so at each point of stop, ultimately returning to approximately the original location where we first spotted the it in the dark sky. Then the UFO accelerated up and disappeared out of site, all faster than a blink. We did see a few planes overhead in the sky, I have never seen anything in the sky move like this.
May 11, 2020 · 10:00 AM · DISK
Key West, FL
My girlfriend and I were laying on loungers at our pool around 10am. I was admiring the clear blue sky when 5 Silver circle craft, moving West to East quickly appeared overhead. I pointed and jokingly said "look UFOs". Then realized I had no idea what these were.. When I changed position to show my girlfriend they disappeared. So I laid back down and looked from original angle and there they were again still moving east towards the sun. I would estimate about 5k feet. No trail or noise. 1 of the craft sped past the others out of formation then fell back in the staggered line until they were out of sight.
March 11, 2019 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Key West, FL
Transparent triangular shape craft flew across US1 20 mins north of Key West made no sound.