Circle over Winter Haven, FL
A witness account on file, unevaluated. Most of the archive rests here, and honestly so.
The report, as filed
My wife spotted the three fireball looking spheres in the sky over the lake, Alfred Carefree Cove area. From 17 92 intersection.
Held as-reported from National UFO Reporting Center (record NUFORC #132578). Witness text is preserved verbatim, including its spelling; nothing is edited beyond formatting.
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Routed to: Federal Aviation Administration · records window 2017-02-09 → 2017-02-26
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June 22, 2022 · 4:15 AM · TRIANGLE
Winter Haven, FL
4:15am looked up saw triangle shaped object, 3 orbs above, 3 orbs below, 3 orbs behind the triangle. Some screen however you could see the lights shinning through. Loud humming sound. They just stood still until the triangleal object ascended first followed buy one buy one of the orbs. 4 of the orbs moved out of the smoke screen which showed a bright light which hovered then moved slowly up,out of sight.
December 31, 2021 · 11:36 PM · CYLINDER
Winter Haven, FL
During a New Year’s Eve family gathering both my wife Jeannette and I took pictures of the three stars that make up Orion’s belt because the night was very clear. The next day, while examining the photos, we noticed the strange object appearing on both pictures. There were lights and various colors on the object. At the time, we didn't notice that the object was even there, therefore we didn't detect any type of motion. IMG_3765 was taken by my wife, while IMG_8282 was taken by me.
November 25, 2017 · 11:35 PM · OTHER
Winter Haven, FL
The three of us were playing Freeze Tag among other outdoor games while our families remained indoors during a party. One of us pointed out a cluster of maybe 10 red lights among a couple of white lights near the star Polaris. I thought it was a really clear night and we were looking at the constellation of the little dipper. We thought the little dipper had red stars...until they started moving. The red lights flickered and moved around each other, as if they were weaving between themselves. After about two minutes, we noticed that there was one cluster of red stars. It was like a circle of four, very tight knit red lights. This cluster moved over Polaris, and we were absolutely shocked that it blocked the star. All the red lights began to move towards each other, towards this cluster. The friend that noticed the red lights ran indoors to retrieve his phone to take a picture, and I tried shouting to him to come back; something weird was occuring. Within ten seconds of our friend being gone, every red light added on to the cluster, creating a sort of 'pinecone' of red lights. They were together, but you could clearly see that there was a black line or space between each light. It was ovular, being thinner at the top and thicker in the middle. Two or three lights in this pinecone of red light would flash white before turning back to red. Most of the lights flashed eventually, some did not. Our friend ran back outside and exclaimed in fear, we were all excited and scared at the events unfolding before our eyes. The red craft moved suddenly down, further and further until it was nearly out of view behind a neighbor's house. As the craft moved further down, it caught on fire at the bottom as it entered the Earth's atmosphere. It couldn't have been a weather balloon or asteroid, nothing we thought of convinced us; rational explanations didn't sound convincing. The craft then practically disintegrated in nearly 20, if not more, red lights that seemed to fall. We ran backwards as they continued to fall and turn white. The lights then disappeared.
August 19, 2017 · 10:30 AM · FORMATION
Winter Haven, FL
Started out as am orange red ball just sitting there. Then it broke apart into a bunch of smaller lights (5-7), almost in a formation. They came back together, and then split apart again, before disappearing into the southern skies.
November 20, 2014 · 8:40 PM · FIREBALL
Winter Haven, FL
Well, me and my sister was sitting outside around 8:40pm, when we noticed a glowing fire ball with lights around it an it looked as if 2 helicopter were keeping an eye on it. This object stood in the same spot for like 5-7 minutes, but when I went to go get my phone, it was gone. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 20, 2014 · 9:30 PM · OTHER
Winter Haven, FL
Saturday, September 20th around 9:30 PM, Winter Haven Florida Partly cloudy to the west (Light wispy clouds) with a full cloud bank moving in from the west ... Looking overhead, we were right on the edge between the two. Wife & I were out walking the dog when we both noticed a distortion or wave in the sky overhead. Neither of us was looking up at the time but is was so large & distinct, we caught it out of our peripheral vision. Looking up we see 15+ faint lights in a perfect bow or arc shape approximately 2000ft up & almost directly overhead ... All the light were very dim but perfectly equal distant from each other. The total distance of the arc from end to end was 300+ feet and making absolutely no sound at all. We watched it as it moved towards the south for approx 4 to 5 secs ... I would estimate it moved a couple of miles in that time ... And at that point, the lights just disappeared ... Not that it had moved so far that we couldn't have seen them ... But the lights just seemed to be blocked from our view once it moved out that far. Total time of the sighting was no more than 10 seconds. Above is what we seen as best I can describe ... The rest is pure speculation on my part. I believe what we seen was some type of a cloaked craft ... As I stated all we could really make out when we looked up were these faint lights ... But I believe what we were seeing was just the leading edge of a larger craft (Most likely circular in shape) ... And I say this because the distortion we first notice was large & round'ish in shape ... I would describe it as what you would see if you were looking at a still pool of water and then throwing a rock into it ... Undulating waves. But by the time we looked up that distortion had cleared and all we could make out at that point was this large faint arc of lights. Secondly, as this thing moved to the point where the light just seemed to disappear. I believe what happened was that as it moved to the south our viewing angle changed so we were now looking at the back of this craft ... And our view of the back was blocking our view of those leading edge lights.