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Sightings

Witness reports, held as-reported. Each entry keeps its source, its coordinates where the record has them, and its place in the larger pattern.

7,220 entries

August 7, 2023 · 9:20 PM · SPHERE

Clearwater, FL

I was driving southbound on Missouri Avenue in Clearwater, Florida near the Clearwater/Largo city limit. To my slight left, I saw a bright red glowing orb come down from the sky in a rectilinear fashion, then subsequently rise back upward again in the same manner. Sort of like an elevator. From the naked eye, it didn't appear to have a trail like an asteroid would. It happened very quickly and as I was driving, so unfortunately I was unable to capture the event and even if I could I don't think I would have been able to capture it quick enough.

August 7, 2023 · 7:00 PM · DISK

Clearwater, FL

My husband, son, and I recently moved to this area. We were taking pictures of the sky off of the Campbell Causeway Access Rd S, and saw what appeared to be one "jet" hitting the sound barrier over the Clearwater area. However, we heard no sonic boom, which puzzled us. Upon further examination of the photo, it looks as though it is coming out of a hole in the clouds. It was shaped like a disc of some kind. I was extremely excited. As a person of logic and reason, my husband was very confused. This morning, my husband said that he believes we saw a UFO. [NUFORC annotation: shock cone?? - Possible]

August 6, 2023 · 10:48 PM · FIREBALL

Identified

Port Charlotte, FL

Object changed colors red stationary to orange moving with a trail or tail behind. Trail dissipated on stopping. Moved with intent up stop right sped up stopped then went out. Thought it was a light on a tower until it moved and stopped Thought it was a comet as the tail grew Thought it was an aircraft but illumination went off and it stayed in one spot Color was not constant. SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-8 mission from Cape Canaveral [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

August 6, 2023 · 10:45 PM · LIGHT

Cocoa, FL

I was testing my new cell camera during the launch, this was after the launch cleared, etc. I saw lights, orbs, with colors, moving (what I first thought were stars, turned out to be balls of light? Possibly?) around each other, then one disappeared behind the treeline. I shot video, quickly and clumsily, but, it's the best I could do.

August 6, 2023 · 10:43 PM · SPHERE

Identified

Fort Mccoy, FL

SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-8 mission from Cape Canaveral [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

August 6, 2023 · 10:40 PM · SPHERE

Identified

Tarpon Springs, FL

Driving along Keystone Rd in Tarpon Springs there was a bright red orange light that kept growing brighter. It was not moving and was larger than a planet. It had what appeared to be a tail that grew up bit longer as it got brighter. I watched it stay still for about 30 seconds and it started to dim real fast into a white dot and disappeared. Very odd. SpaceX Falcon 9 on the Starlink 6-8 mission from Cape Canaveral [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

August 6, 2023 · 4:27 PM · LIGHT

Deerfield Beach, FL

We were looking for shooting stars at the beach when we saw something that looked like a tiny star falling next to a stagnant star that was a bit bigger & brighter than the UAP. Would’ve thought it was one if it were stagnant too. It wasn’t twinkling, & looked like it had a warmer light color. It kept going down in the horizon, further away from us as it got increasingly harder to follow with our eyes. It didn’t move like a plane, and it was faster too, not crazy fast looking from our angle. It went behind a cloud and didn’t reappear sadly. Was too tiny to catch on our phones.

August 6, 2023 · 1:26 PM · UNKNOWN

Identified

Cutler Bay, FL

I was driving EB on SW 184th Street approaching Old Cutler Road & saw a long chemtrail to my southeast (about 2:00 position) except unlike normal chemtrails it appeared to be launched surface-to-air like a rocket or a missile. There are no rocket launching facilities nearby, & Cape Canaveral is about 230 miles in the opposite direction. It seems to have been launched from Biscayne Bay. [NUFORC annotation: Contrail - Certain]

August 5, 2023 · 9:25 PM · SPHERE

Auburndale, FL

I was in my garage at 9:25pm I looked outside acrosss the street and noticed the neighbors house being illuminated with what I thought where head lights and almost shrugged it off but it quickly got brighter I walked outside and looked at the entrance of my neighborhood that faces lake Ariana to find a gold glowing orb floating above the lake more than 3 football fields away. It got brighter and as fast as it appeared it disappeared. I saw one similar 5 years ago in Brandon Florida in heather lakes, I’m sure I’m not the only one to have seen this recent one, lake Ariana is surrounded by neighborhoods it was bright enough to light up my side of the lake like a miniature sun

August 4, 2023 · 9:42 PM · SPHERE

Bradenton, FL

emitted beams like a Star but closeup

August 4, 2023 · 3:50 PM · SPHERE

Pensacola, FL

While driving home from work on 08/04/2023 at 1550 CST I observed and caught on dashcam a golfball sized orb that descended from between the two overpasses I was stopped under while waiting for a traffic light to change. The orb appeared as a very bright golfball sized sphere that decended from above the two overpass at approximately a 45° angle in an unwavering fashion not common to natural objects like insects. This felt like it was being controlled. As the orb decended to the height of the guardrail a few feet away it changed course and moved horizontally as it continued moving towards the railing. I observed the orb as it passed between the metal railing and the concrete wall just out of view of my dash camera. Traffic begain moving and I was not able to continue observing the orb.

August 4, 2023 · 3:10 AM · LIGHT

Debary, FL

Two objects following each other very closely at first and quickly. They both would come apart, go back together and continued hovering around each other. One was copper and the other with bright pulsing lights of all colors. The copper one pulsated and vanished quickly, leaving a trail. The other continued to hover slowly and travel in a NE direction. The lights continued to randomly change across the object as very vivid bright changing colors.

August 3, 2023 · 12:55 AM · CIRCLE

Orlando, FL

I was standing outside waiting for the Falcon launch, when a red orb appeared above a neighbors house and it began to travel West towards me very slowly for about a minute. When it slowly turned South and traveled a short time before it was “enveloped” into a dark mass. I had my phone in my hand waiting for the launch, and I’m absolutely sure that it wasn’t the Falcon 9..

August 2, 2023 · 5:30 AM · EGG

Palm Springs, FL

I was running around 5:30am. Mostly clear skies, and low light pollution (street lamps etc). The moon was behind me entirely. I looked up and to my left when a movement caught my eye. I saw a bright white object, somewhat egg shaped. It was anywhere from a few hundred to a thousand feet in the air. It looked to be roughly the size of a car. It was gliding very quickly through the air in a slight arc, faster than any plane or other aeronautical craft known to me, spanning at what an arm’s length would be one to two feet, but in the sky was a large distance. It only lasted about 1.5-2 seconds. It looked like it was lit from within, and although the white light was pure and bright, and seemed to be moving in a circular motion, the object did not give off brightness around it, only a faint glow. The object was not falling, like a meteor crashing through the atmosphere; there was no tail, debris, or sound. It was moving smoothly and independently. It was being guided. It suddenly stopped, flashed a bright blue light on one side, and taking a sharp right, it basically jumped into hyperspace. It blipped and was gone. But I could see the direction it had moved in, after making that perfect angle and change in direction. It happened very fast, but I have never seen anything so clearly in my entire life. I was looking directly at it; it was not from my peripheral vision, I saw it from the moment it appeared in the sky, to the moment it jumped.

August 2, 2023 · 1:00 AM · CIRCLE

Probable conventional

Fort Meade, FL

It came out of no where looked like a ball of fire the like a tail of fire behind it it was coming towards me then took a right and disappeared [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]

August 1, 2023 · 3:45 AM · SPHERE

Riverview, FL

My sister sent me her ring cam footage from this morning and it shows a bright light appearing in the sky and gets brighter, illuminating the sky and surrounding clouds. you can see the reflection on her cars roof.

July 31, 2023 · 10:15 PM · OTHER

Naples, FL

Initial sighting of smallish craft I thought it was a drone, flashing blue and white lights rhythmically. It appeared over the tree line near the intersection of US 41 and Barefoot Williams Road. It flew slowly towards the east it did not pause, was very deliberate. It appeared to maintain the same altitude from my perspective. I was able to see it against clear, dark, nearly cloudless sky. It traversed nearly 6 miles slowly disappearing from my view. It’s approximate location when it was out of. My sight would’ve been Collier Boulevard somewhere north of US 41.My dog heard it before I actually saw it. It was only moments later that it came into my view. it was a very low sound somewhat like a hum or tone. Constant sound, it didn’t change. The lights were what made it most noticeable, actual shape of the craft, for lack of a better term was almost indistinguishable as any real shape. I had believed it to be a drone at first but it flew way, WAY too far for it to be under ground based control. Unless it was a military drone which I find highly unlikely in this area. It’s slow, consistent forward motion maintained the entire time I was able to see it. There was one moment after about nine minutes of watching it where it appeared to either stop or make a slight deviation to the north then it continued on to the west. In the following hour and a half, after losing sight of it, my dog heard something outside again, and reacted very violently. There was nothing outside that we could see. [NUFORC annotation: Drone - Possible]

July 31, 2023 · 5:55 AM · SPHERE

Melbourne, FL

I’ve watched these lights for the past eight months they move erratically up down sideways. The number of lights divide when attempting to photograph typically the lights turn off and our seen in another location. There was roughly about 12 separate lights. They moved all around the property when I went outside to see them they followed. You could not make out anything other than the lights. I have videos and more photos, but can only upload four

July 30, 2023 · 3:00 AM · TRIANGLE

Spring Hill, FL

I've seen orbs of light triangle light trails behind orbs and things shooting across sky's moving extremely fast and also doing loops crazy manouvers

July 29, 2023 · 6:33 PM · CIRCLE

Lakeland, FL

driving on Lunn rd, I was approaching the intersection of Lunn and W Pipkin rd. I noticed a black spherical object above me in the distance. Came to a stop at the light and observed the object moving my right to left moving behind the tree line. The light turned green and i made a left turn on W Pipkin, driving a few hundred yards I pulled into the parking lot of a Geico agency but could not locate the sphere any longer.

July 29, 2023 · 11:20 AM · UNKNOWN

Riverview, FL

Walking my dog, an Panther Trace Park I looked up as I noticed a small black object in the clouds far away. Initially I began videoing, and when I came home, zoomed into the video not only did I see multiple, but I got a beautiful linear one second video of an object flying right underneath from the left side the screen all the way to the right side of the screen. I have the one second video as well as the nine screenshots I took, and you can see beautiful formation of it flying across. (Uploaded 1second video and was only able to upload an additional (3) or the (9) second clips of the image- see for yourself ! :)

July 28, 2023 · 11:07 PM · FORMATION

Identified

St. Petersburg, FL

Was walking back to our apartment from Walmart. I looked to my left and high above the power lines were 2 separate objects. One was a cluster of lights and the other was a very large ball of an even brighter light. Both close together. Told my bf and he saw them, quickly grabbed my phone to take video and while I was trying to get my phone to fix the clarity of the focus, the cluster of lights faded into a slow fade. The bright ball of light was still there but then it faded away slowly too. So much clearer in person. See video SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT

Gainesville, FL

I was enamored by a visual in the sky at 11:00pm, in an Easterly direction. It looked like a meteor casting a "dust trail" in the atmosphere in the shape of a star. This slowly moved North, from my right to left. To the right of that, was a "firework" style light show behind it, in a single spot not moving. I presume this to be the Falcon 9 Heavy far away from me. I'm in Gainesville FL, and the Space X launch is at Kennedy Space Center, over 100 miles away. (I didn't know this at the time of viewing) Anyway, 5 minutes after the sky clears up from that Space launch event, I drove a golf cart away. I glance in the general direction again (East) and now, much closer to my location, appears a pair of orange orb/spherical lights in the sky. Slightly south from my perspective of the Space event, these entities are moving slowly Southward. They formed a diagonal line going up and back. Not more than a moment after viewing, the front light disappears, followed by the second light, mere seconds later.

July 28, 2023 · 11:05 PM · LIGHT