Circle over Orange Park, FL
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The report, as filed
Orange Park Fl 3 minutes pulsating glowing red and orange orb seen by 4 family members.
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 2013-11-26 → 2013-12-13
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November 9, 2023 · 4:30 PM · CHANGING
Orange Park, FL
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.
June 11, 2023 · 9:15 AM · CHANGING
Orange Park, FL
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.
December 16, 2020 · 3:42 PM · DISK
Orange Park, FL
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
September 18, 2020 · 10:10 PM · UNKNOWN
Orange Park, FL
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.
May 22, 2020 · 1:00 PM · LIGHT
Orange Park, FL
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.
October 20, 2017 · 9:20 PM · UNKNOWN
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.