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Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.
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October 1, 2014 · 9:30 PM · FIREBALL
St. Petersburg Beach, FL
Girlfriend and I were sitting at the Bon-Aire tiki bar while watching the bay channel markers and Egmont Key lighthouse (roughly 210 degrees from our vantage point), when we saw an *EXTREMELY* bright fireball that looked to illuminate the cloud base that was hovering nearby... If you were to hold a quarter at arm's length, that would be the close diameter to what we saw as the initial fireball (like I said, it illuminated the cloud base). I would say it was in the 3500K scale. It lasted less then a half second, with multiple bursts of light. I've seen military flares... this was not one of them. We suspected USCG helicopter maneuvers up north towards Clearwater (unconfirmed), but the farthest south we saw the helis was due west (270 degrees), approximately 30 minutes before the fireball (only 1 running spotlight on the water). I would base the sighting at roughly 215 - 235 degrees from our vantage point at the Bon-Aire. Did anyone else see this event!? We talked to our bartender and she thought we were crazy!
October 1, 2014 · 4:45 AM · LIGHT
Clearwater, FL
About 4:45am Wednesday morning Oct 1st. I saw a single blue flickering light at street level on Algonquin Ave. in Clearwater, FL. It was small like a flashlight and would flicker from blue to white to off sporadically while it flew around similar to a moth. From a foot or so above the street to 20 or so feet up. I could see the trees across the street behind it, it was very close. I watched if fly around for at least a minute while moving toward it then it went out and I didn’t see it again. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 30, 2014 · 10:30 PM · FORMATION
Delray Beach, FL
On Tuesday night I first saw five separate lights flying north to south in linear formation. A couple of the lights flew erratically. They were flying at extremely high altitudes at a very high rate of speed. Thirty minutes later there was another formation, consisting of around 8 lights, which flew in a v formation. There were a few lights in this formation that were also flying erratically. Neither formation was perfect, each were clearly formed of individual craft.
September 30, 2014 · 9:00 PM
Melbourne, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 30, 2014 · 9:00 PM
Melbourne, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 28, 2014 · 8:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Jacksonville, FL
Driving on JTB towards jax beach at 8:30 PM on 9.28.14 I saw a blue/red/pink/purple looking light going way up and down above the tree tops, in the area of beach blvd. At first I thought it was a helicopter. But the object moved so fast. It dove down and right back up and swirled around, way too fast and too bright to be a helicopter. It was not a plane either. I knew that from the start. It did not have the right shape or fly like one. As I turned on to Hodges blvd I continued to watch this light rise and fall in the sky. It would go way up in the air maybe 100 or 1000 feet and then fall right back down fast and zoom back up. When I made it to my home my family got in the car with me and we drove toward beach blvd to try to find what it was. As we turned onto Hodges again we saw the ball of light zooming around. It flew over the Windsor realty office and when we got in the turn lane to get closer it flew above our vehicle, about 10 feet above us. And then we pulled into Cape House and it zoomed away from us. It seemed to hover 20 feet away and above from us. I took out my camera phone and tried to get a video but the quality is horrible. As I started to film it I felt like it was watching us. It was so weird and then my husband took my phone from me and tried to zoom in on it and lost the light in the image. Then it zoomed up over the cape house office building. So we drove into Cape House Apts. Trying to ! find where it had gone but we never saw it again. We drove around for about 20 minutes trying to find it again. Got home at 9:20 PM. So It ended at about 9:00 PM. We thought if it wasn’t government or alien then maybe someone had a gas powered flying toy that they modified with blue/red/pink lights. I don’t understand why no one else driving around noticed this thing and tried to find it too. It was so bright and flying so close and all over Hodges Blvd. I want to say it was maybe a foot long of light but I couldn’t get a good view of it because of the bright light. It was so fast. I have no idea what it is. The lights did not blink. It was like a bright ball of light maybe a foot wide. NO sound. After the ball disappeared a Plane came by flying kind of low and we wondered if that was government coming to find out what it was too. Or maybe the plane had dropped a drone in that area. I'm stumped. The light seemed clear but we couldn't tell what it was attached too couldn't see anything but the light.
September 25, 2014 · 8:45 PM · TRIANGLE
Orlando, FL
I saw a slow, low flying object, it made a faint noise. There was 1 bright light in the front centre and a bright white light either side to the rear. There were no other lights, ie: no green or red lights like a plane would have. I went outside to the back of the building within a few seconds, so I could check it out further, but it had completely vanished.
September 25, 2014 · 8:00 PM · LIGHT
Homestead, FL
Witnessed 14 to 15 lights, take off from the area of Everglades National Park. Seemed to take off, drift to the north, a few fell back to the ground. Not sure what it is/was but very mysterious. Orange pulsing, colored light. My children called attention to me to see what was in the sky. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 25, 2014 · 2:00 AM · CHEVRON
Lehigh, FL
Tonight, I went out to get better reception and decided to look out at the sky. I occasionally look out at stars or sight see for anything interesting. I have seen many shooting stars, your occasional moon events. I especially see air crafts coming in due to a nearby airport and airfields. I have never, however, seen anything like this. It flew noticeably close to the ground and had no noise coming from it. It had a chevron shape, but was more obtuse and had nothing on the back to signify any rockets or propellers. The overall size itself was not commercial at all. More privatized or military issued. The craft had no visible detail to it besides the red lights on the edges from the bottom (Est. about 11 in all), perhaps due to the absence of moonlight and few streetlights. It did not have much speed either. It looked more like it was gliding or just floating through the sky. The whole event was very short, but caught my attention and encouraged me to investigate. I found a post that almost exactly resembled it in the same area during sunset in 2011. After reading it, I knew I was not imaging things and this same craft has made a second trip.
September 24, 2014 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Pompono Beach, FL
In the clouds at night, saw a triangular flying object with dim white light massive moving silently in the clouds. Can't explain how I saw, but I was telling my roommate, and he said it was a stealth bomber. 20 mins later it reappear heading north. It was toward the ocean. It was heading north, then turned and headed south my roommate finally saw second one and now we think we crazy because I did not want to see that I have no answer I know it was to big to be a plane and I hope someone else report it to reconfirm i am not crazy! Please hope someone can give me answer. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 24, 2014 · 9:24 PM · OVAL
Lakeland, FL
At the approximate above date, and time my wife and I were heading home in 2 different directions. I noticed just above the tree line heading west bound on Sheppard RD. A very low flying object. At first I thought it was an airplane landing at the near by airport. The only problem with this object is I could not see wings it was oval shaped with 4 lights on top, and a non pulsating red light on the bottom. I only noticed the object for about 1 minute before it appeared to disappear in front of my eyes. My wife called me to ask if I saw the light. I was very surprised because my wife is very skeptical, and she described the same object, but she saw it for about 3 minutes, she described it disappearing as well before I told her what I saw. I am just curious if anyone else noticed this object.
September 24, 2014 · 1:26 AM · FIREBALL
Gainesville, FL
Shortly after, approx 2 sec an impact was heard. I attempted to locate however, I could not
September 22, 2014 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Jacksonville, FL
I finished giving my dog a bath outside in the front yard and I looked up in the sky and there is a object with blue and red lights flashing really fast. I heard a helicopter in the distance, but when the sound went away and the object was still in the sky, I knew it was not a helicopter. The movement that the object was making was not of a helicopter or plane. I left my home to follow it, and when I got to a close enough location it disappeared and appeared on the other side of the street in different colors. Now it was flashing green and yellow lights. It dropped below the tree line and didn't appear again. Possible hoax, we wonder. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. Hence, we are unable to invite the individual to forward the photographic evidence to our Center, which he/she has not done. PD
September 21, 2014 · 2:00 AM · SPHERE
Lithia, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
September 21, 2014 · 1:57 AM · FIREBALL
Sanford, FL
While driving we looked up at the night sky at 1:57AM and saw what appeared to look like a rocket with an orange flame in the sky.
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.
September 20, 2014 · 1:55 AM · CIRCLE
Vero Beach/Melbourne, FL
It was about 01:55am and I was driving from Vero Beach, FL, toward West Melbourne, FL on U.S.1. I was about 14 or 15 miles south of West Melbourne (approximately 25 miles north of Vero Beach) heading North on U.S.1 along the coast when I observed a round, bright yellowish orange light. At first I thought it might be the moon, but, I quickly realized that it was too small and too bright. This light was unusual as it gave the effect similar to what you would see watching a safety flare or a piece of magnesium burn - very bright & glowing. The next thing I noticed was that it was too big to be a star. I also noticed that it was moving from North to South down the coastline, but over the ocean - in my general direction, but not directly at me. It didn't seem to be moving incredibly fast but I would say it was moving at a moderate pace, it was slightly off to my right - but in front of me, again - yellowish orange & very bright - too small to be the moon & too big to be a star, so now I am thinking to myself - this has to be a meteor. With my curiosity peaked, I actually parked in the median of U.S.1 and got out of my car and observed this "Thing" for about 5 minutes. Now I have my cell phone out and I am gonna try and get some video of it. I had a little trouble finding it at first, I am guessing at it's closest point, it was probably 1-2 miles from me and if I had to guess an altitiude, I would say somewhere between 3,000 & 5,000 ft. There was no audible noise associated with this object or it's! movement. Once I finally did get it into view and was ready to record it, it suddenly burned extra bright - and then disappeared - just like that. Or, so I thought. Upon looking closely for about 10 seconds I picked it up again but the bright yellowish orange glow that was there previously, was now gone. There was still some light there still, but it was very dim (to the point where it could have easily been overlooked) and appeared to be coming from behind the object now, thus silhouetting it. So, I surmised that it had simply changed direction, I am guessing it had made, approximately, an abrupt 90 degree turn. Now the object was still moving but appeared to be heading away from me - but still remained in the same general location with a little lateral movement back & forth. I understand that this object changed direction abruptly, but, I can't explain the dramatic decrease in the light it was emitting, it went from super-bright, to virtually no light at all. And again, there was no noise that I could associate this object. I watched it for a couple minutes longer, as it seemed to be moving away from me (East) o! ut over the open ocean and then I decided to leave as I was meeting somebody. I have never in my life (45 years) seen a UFO - but I believe, for the first time, I did last night.
September 20, 2014 · 1:45 AM · UNKNOWN
Melbourne, FL
I saw what looked like an aircraft at the first sight. It has a very bright light and was heading straight towards my apartment complex. The lights were so bright that my eyes were getting irritated even though it wast that close. It was slow at first, then gained altitude, gained speed and flew away. It had a trail of yellow light behind it.
September 18, 2014 · 11:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Valrico, FL
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.
September 18, 2014 · 11:00 PM · LIGHT
Indialantic, FL
Bright green and red light with a flashing white light rose very quickly from the tree-line to an estimated 300 feet, stopped, swerved back and forth quickly, then ascended rapidly again (maybe 100 more feet) before rapidly descending back below the tree-line. May have been a toy helicopter/drone, but the lights were very bright if it was one and it moved very quickly and went very high for a toy. We spoke via telephone with the witness, and he sounded to us to be quite sincere about his sighting. PD
September 18, 2014 · 9:30 PM · LIGHT
Sanford, FL
Bright white light as if it was a large aircraft/plane but was soon to land. (There is an airport nearby but the reason this caught my attn is because there were no red or blue flashing lights identifying it as a plane. Just the white light as if a headlight and it was the brightest i've ever seen. I seen this object go through a very dense cloud as if it were fog but as it was exiting out, it was gone completely disappeared.
September 17, 2014 · 11:20 PM · OTHER
Melbourne (???), FL
Boomerang shaped UFO it had no lights. Flying South stopped midair then proceeded on Southern path. 200' to 500+' estimated tip-to-tip length. Could see shape as it slowly passed overhead slightly inland from beach. "VERY CLEARLY DEFINED AS BOOMERANG SHAPED OBJECT SEEN BY TWO WITNESES". COMPLETELY SILENT WHILE MOVING, HOVERING, MOVING…
September 16, 2014 · 6:00 AM · LIGHT
New Port Richey, FL
I got up early one morning it was around 5:56am. Alarm was set for 7am but thought I’d get up and check the weather outside. It was still dark and the sky was extremely clear, no clouds, and the stars were quite visible. I decided to go get my camera and take some pictures of the stars since there were so many and visibility was excellent. I looked up at a group of stars and noticed one of them was moving. It was a ball of light, silent, and travelling fairly quickly. I thought to myself this is no star or meteorite because of the speed of the object. I’ve seen meteorites and they fade out pretty fast and travel like a bullet and are gone. I grabbed my camera and tried to film it with no success. It was pretty high up, maybe 3-5000 feet up. I watched it for about 90 seconds until it was no longer in sight. Then lo and behold another appeared travelling high up and went by one of those stars that twinkle and appear to change color. It was also high up (ball of light) and I couldn’t focus for a good picture. At the same moment in a different area in the sky there was an airplane flying with the typical blinking navigational lights and jet engine sound. The two were completely different. Then my attention was drawn to this apparent star that was very bright and changing color. Even to the naked eye I could see it change color. I had my camera on a tripod and started to shoot video and a few pictures. This object whatever it was bluish in color and went from a ball of light to a hexagon with a slight dark spot in the middle. Do stars change colors and shapes?? I don’t know. I thought maybe it was the Earth’s atmosphere and it’s distance from Earth that caused these variations in shape and color. Whatever it was it was fascinating to watch and I videotaped it for about 16 minutes. Unfortunately the balls of light just wouldn’t cooperate with my camera. Here’s an interesting tidbit. I was going through the reports on your site and noticed someone in Surfside Beach, SC reported a red ball of light in the sky on 9/19/14. They said when they zoomed in, it looked like a human brain with shades of gray. Although I couldn’t capture this with my camera, when I used my! binoculars to look at this apparent star, it too looked like a brain in the sky. It was really cool looking and when I went out of focus with the binoculars is when it looked like a wired brain in the sky. I thought maybe I was seeing things. Now I know someone else saw a ball of light when zooming in taking on the appearance of a brain. I think I will coin the term UFB,meaning "unidentified flying brain”. Of course I’m poking a little fun at this but this story is absolutely true. I think many people see odd things in our skies but never take the time to ponder something really different just happened. If I can I will post the picture of this pulsating star and video on your site.
September 15, 2014 · 6:52 AM · EGG
Jacksonville, FL
This happened in a matter of seconds.