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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
April 30, 2023 · 8:30 PM · OTHER
IdentifiedHypoluxo, FL
Last night at 8:30, as the sun was going down, a large, bowl-like shape appeared over our hedge, traveling east at about the speed of a plane. It seemed to be surrounded by fog even thought the sky was clear that night. Behind the light-colored "bowl" trailed a wide, white plume that varied in width - not a straight, thin line like a meteor and not symmetrical. As the bowl got harder to see in the distance, the white plume remained in the sky quite a bit longer. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
April 30, 2023 · 8:29 PM · FIREBALL
IdentifiedPembroke Pines, FL
The object was heading east approximately 300 feet from ground,( from where I saw it). It had a orangeish tail for awhile.. As it got further away the tail got lighter in color, almost white), and the farther it got the less I saw a tail trail. Eventually it was to far for us to see it. SpaceX [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Certain]
April 30, 2023 · 8:25 PM · FIREBALL
Probable conventionalHobe Sound, FL
Falcon Heavy SpaceX LC-39A, Kennedy Space Center [NUFORC annotation: Rocket - Probable]
April 30, 2023 · 8:15 PM · CIRCLE
Chiefland, FL
I was outside with my daughter, I happened to glance up at the sky, staring toward the east I noticed briefly a bright orange circular light, fade away in the same location it didn’t move it just faded out. It was larger than I have seen the moon most days. I told my daughter, who was standing next to me at the time, what I saw ,but she didn’t notice it when I asked her.
April 30, 2023 · 7:40 PM · CYLINDER
Stuart, FL
Object was observed falling from sky like a meteorite white cylinder fuzzy looking with tail behind it then went to a horizontal position moving back and forth left and right and then became stationary about 35 to 45 arm's length object was as big as my hand neighbor see me outside looking at Sky and said he had seen the same thing and he had on video
April 23, 2023 · 10:19 PM · LIGHT
Sunny Isles Beach, FL
I saw two dots spiraling around each other and one dot of light closely following it then they moved from my location over the ocean so fast that I couldn't keep up with them.
April 23, 2023 · 6:04 PM · SPHERE
Gainesville, FL
I looked out of the window of my apartment upon which I saw three grey, metallic, spherically shaped objects flying outside. The objects were approximately half a mile away, flying at a few hundred feet above the ground. They appeared to have be relatively small (perhaps 10 feet in diameter), flew in conjunction with one other, and did not appear to be flying sole with the wind. They moved at relatively low speeds and did not appear to possess any visible forms of propulsion. I have a video of the encounter on my phone, spanning a minute and six seconds long. I currently a student at the University of Florida. I was the only person in my apartment to witness this incident. Appears to be 3 balloons tethered together. [NUFORC annotation: Balloon - Possible]
April 22, 2023 · 8:41 PM · SPHERE
Clearwater, FL
On my evening walk, at 8:40 PM on April 22, 2023, at the intersection of my driveway and Belleair Road, looking South, I saw fire orbs rise above the tree line and travel West to East, rising, darting, and falling. There was a series of 9 by my count. After traveling a ways, when they reached a point in the East, they disappeared. Earlier, and during the flight of the orbs, I saw a helicopter and planes, and each had blinking lights, and were not this orange fire color. Those flew in direct lines, and were smooth flying, no sudden moves or changes of direction. The orbs I saw made no sound, flew randomly but continued West to East, some changed direction in a darting fashion, side to side and up and down. There was no blinking, no sound, no exhaust that I could see or hear. They started right about dusk, and continued for about 21 minutes. I made a video, which offers commentary, and posted it here: https://youtu.be/mD5yZsvGEbY
April 21, 2023 · 12:24 AM · CHEVRON
Largo, FL
I was walking my dog along the west side of Seminole Lake in Largo Florida. It was approximately 12:45 in the morning when I looked to the west towards the condominiums. I observed flying from south to north a chevron/boomerang shaped craft. The craft had I believe 4-5 round white lights on it that were not very bright. The craft seemed to look almost transparent as it traveled north. If I’m looking at the roof of the building the craft was about four finger lengths above the roof line. It was hard to say how high the craft was, but close enough to make out the shape and size which was pretty big. The craft as it was traveling north almost appeared to be canting to its left. To me it appeared as of the craft had appeared out of nowhere. The craft appeared to be in and out of cloaking. As I was attempting to get out my phone to record the craft it faded out as it traveled north behind trees. I was hoping I could pick it back up as it traveled north. I immediately called my wife and told her, then called my friend to share my sighting.
April 20, 2023 · 6:14 AM · SPHERE
Margate, FL
Moved slowly and erratically. About same magnitude as Jupiter . back and forth and up and down movements . While overhead I ran inside to grab my DSLR but it was gone in thise ten seconds . I am a retired photo-journalist
April 19, 2023 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
Tarpon springs, FL
The metal looking ball stayed stationary and would disappear, moved up, down then stay stationary again and then disappear and reappear again. I video taped it while I was at the light then pulled off into the Publix to further video it and it disappeared. Few days late in the same spot i saw what looked like a metal tube that could disappear as well. Both sightings there were clouds in the sky. They seemingly use the clouds to hide in and I think the tube shape either changed shapes into a ball or there was another ball around it because right after I saw the tube I saw the same ball again. Both sights were also around the same time of day which was 7-8pm
April 15, 2023 · 8:30 PM · FIREBALL
Avon park, FL
From where I was sitting it it appeared out of the West side of the sky heading towards the east bright fireball looking thing moving slowly but what got my attention is when it stopped in mid air and started going backwards again then stopped started moving forwards again and that's when I ran in and told my dad there's something in the sky he came out and watched it with me. Then it turned right heading south and just disappeared.
April 14, 2023 · 9:05 PM · CIGAR
St Augustine, FL
Note…….. This object appeared on my infrared security camera. After a minute of flying next to my Duck enclosure the ducks woke up and ran to the far side of enclosure when it came into view. (friend) Archeologist for the city of St Augustine before retiring viewed the footage of the anomaly and examined a river rock I had found in the area. The river rock which I have in my yard on the opposite side of the house and are naturally Brown yet this piece was black all through. Carl thought it had possibly been exposed to extreme heat. There were also some markings/lines in my concrete which appeared after the event (which I ignored at first) But then an article appeared on the internet which showed similar markings. (the caption read…….. It said these lines/markings had finally been deciphered after 70 yrs.) I am unable to attach videos or photos to computer sorry (I am 80yrs) but I can send you the photos/videos via text message if you provide a #. There are other paranormal events here on my property all captured via my infrared cameras. Please don't hesitate to contact me. But I do not want any publicity at my age. Thank you.
April 14, 2023 · 1:10 PM · OTHER
Pensacola, FL
Walking home from my friends house, 5 triangle shaped, flying in a v, no sound, then a direct 90° from where I was standing and headed towards Pensacola NAS, and at that moment there were many color lights, moving in multiple ways then completely disappeared, ive had to actually take 24 hours to adjust to what I saw, ive not seen any reports on this, but military did have a couple jets leave from here at that moment I saw what I saw, I'm well aware of the activity here this is my second sighting, 1st was on 4 of July 2017 Menasha Wisconsin, 3 orange triangle shaped, in a triangle hovered for a good 6 minutes.
April 14, 2023 · 2:21 AM · FIREBALL
palm coast, FL
I woke up around 2:20am to drink water when suddenly i saw two bright yellow orange lights making some kind of mechanical weird sound be on the street landing then take off and disappear without trace, then i heard voices in my room and a female saying " here she is"
April 10, 2023 · 2:30 PM · CIRCLE
Cuyler, FL
Was working in the forest (surveyor) when partner & I saw a silver orb about a kilometer away, just above the tree tops (mature loblolly pines, maybe 80-90’ tall). It flew in a rectangular pattern over a swampy area in the forest.
April 9, 2023 · 9:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Probable conventionalTampa, FL
I stared long enough to see it change.from.looking like a star to the bottom of a ufo ship it was smaller circles in the bottom that had light then it transformed again and appeared like a bright star. On the west side north west area. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
April 8, 2023 · 9:30 AM · RECTANGLE
Cayo Costa state park/ gulf of mexico, FL
We were anchored in our boat and set up for the evening. I was idly watching airliners now and then come and go, not many but easily known by landing lights and strobes. I am an ex pilot and familiar with this. I kept noticing this row of lights coming slowly towards us at a lower altitude than commercial craft, in fact it's slowness is what got my attention. Finally I noticed it had become stationary. The night was dark with mild humidly which allowed me to then notice a light emitting out of what you may describe as wings, 90 degree to the craft. Primarily aiming towards us was a light or lights, one in the middle and others further out. Looking at it with binocs they seemed to be rainbow colors other then primary white.The craft now just set there near our boat and I judged it to be quite large. After 20 minutes or so, due to the lights shining out into the atmosphere which glowed somewhat like a flashlight in the humidity, I could see a wobble as though it were balanced with whatever kept it afloat was aimed downward like a gravity cancellation device, certainly not blades or jets for lit was completely silent .This wobble is reported by other observers in other circumstances from what I have read. A few times it was very pronounced. Nothing further happened for almost an hour. I did take a couple shots with my iPhone, not telephoto because I expected it not to take a good picture, but did it at the urging of my daughter whom was in Michigan, We became bored and finally decided to turn in for the night when I took another look around and found another airline rapidly coming into our area, in fact way too fast for an airliner which prompted me to take a closer look. As it got closer, It took a tight right turn, almost 90 degrees and stopped to my right of craft number 1. Immedietly we noticed this was a copy of number one. Tailing close to number 2 was yet another which duplicated the flight pattern of of 2 and stopped. Both were lower than 1 and separated by a few miles. Number two then disappeared completely as though it went away or turned off its lights. Now we had in sight number 1 and 3 well separated. Number 3 then began ascending straight up at a fast speed, but easily followed. It disappeared above us in less than 45 seconds. A few clouds which were misty obscured some of the view, but we could still watch it. As soon as it was gone another came into the picture replacing its position and immediately ascended the same at number 3, this making it the last. After it went out of sight either number two re-appeared or we had number 5. Looking to the left at this point we noticed number one was gone, not sure if it turned off its lights or it ascended. Then the last one did as the others, ascended into space or the upper atmosphere. I am 83 years old, retired teacher and first responder. Having taught science and fine arts. I was fire and rescue for 28 years as well and built and flew my own airplanes along the way, not a nut case. Also over the many year starting in 1954 having seen a disc fly over then which I kept my mouth shut. Later I spent 6 years in the federal reserves, army. We also were very close to a very large craft which went nearly over us at key largo around 2000 when anchored there. Then were witnesses to a hugh light with a second showing after a short time in mid Florida when crossing fl. On the okechobee. This was to big we heard a captain commenting of seeing it from the Gulf Stream in the Atlantic, which impressed us. But then a few day later we saw a video of it from fort Meyers on Hard Copy, a tv show back then and I assume this is in some archives.
April 7, 2023 · 12:32 AM · FLASH
Lakeland, FL
Massive bright red line shaped “thing” moves in an S shape. Like a boomerang. Varying speed. Video taken is when it was not moving. I stupidly didn’t keep recording because i was dumbfounded by what i saw. Saw it with 2 friends and a car stopped in the middle of the parking lot to look at it. Forgive me for sounding crazy but it felt as if the object knew i was recording it because it immediately froze in place when i got my camera out. Then, it turned its red light off. You can see very briefly at the last second of the video that there is a star in the sky that was not there originally. But that could just be me. The red giant light in the sky is crazy though. Would love to hear your thoughts! Thanks! -Joshua Rao P.S. If anyone is interested I would love to be involved in this kind of work.
April 3, 2023 · 8:37 PM · TRIANGLE
Daytona beach, FL
Me and my family saw 2 orange boomerang shaped objects going south to north off the east coast of daytona Beach at 8.38 pm I have video and pictures I am 57 years old I have never seen anything like that before I can not figure out how to upload pics
March 26, 2023 · 9:05 PM · DISK
Probable conventionalPalm Beach, FL
Please see photo, and expand . Shining bright circle with a brown nib/dot in the middle. Stationary, not an aircraft. [NUFORC annotation: Planet/Star - Probable]
March 23, 2023 · 9:30 PM · SPHERE
Cedar Key, FL
Multiple lights ascending and descending, horizontal movements,
March 22, 2023 · 11:50 PM · UNKNOWN
Deland, FL
Bright light. Looked like a star flying low horizontally had red fire trail behind them the trail disappeared. Traveled a little bit longer and disappeared right in front of me! Clear sky no clouds or trees blocking view. No flashing lights at all and I watched for 2-3 minutes. Way slower then shooting stars and fast then a plane. As soon as it disappears I hear on my house or very close by several owls start hooting and making so much noise my dog got spooked and ran inside!
March 22, 2023 · 6:45 AM · LIGHT
Royal Palm Beach, FL
Witness saw an object coming out of the west heading east and below the clouds that definitely was not an aircraft or meteor. He estimated the object was about 4-6 miles out at first.