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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
July 19, 2017 · 12:00 AM · SPHERE
Wesley Chapel, FL
Then, after that, we continue along home and were skeptical, still looking at the sky, and we see red and green lights far away obviously but going in the same direction we were and it happened AGAIN. It was moving kinda fast and then lit up bright just like the other one. It literally looks like a cars headlights, but only one ball of light, like an orb. It just started moving along, not speeding but going fast. It eventually just disappeared and didn't see it after that. It gave us goosebumps.
July 18, 2017 · 1:05 AM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
I was finishing reading late at night in my dorm room at UCF, and I looked outside and saw a very bright light that normally isn't there. It was just shining and staying still for about a minute and then it moved left and grew dimmer once it started to move, until it went behind a building where I couldn't see it anymore. Then a second bright whitish orange light appeared slightly off from where I saw the first one at, and flew off in a similar manner in an opposite direction. The objects had their light arc off in random patterns, and stay, then change again, as they moved, but this didn't happen when they were still.
July 15, 2017 · 1:45 AM · FIREBALL
Vero Beach, FL
At approximately 1:45 AM Eastern Time, I was walking my dog, and as usual, stargazing. As I walked down 40th Ave., towards 12th Street in Vero Beach, Florida, I saw a large fireball appearing light falling to earth, at approximately 45 Degree angle, but curving, not coming straight down. The ball of light lit the clouds orange, as it went behind the cloud and below the tree line, and out of sight. There was no sound at all and I watched the area of the sky for another 10 minutes, but I saw nothing more. It looked like the video of the Russian Chelyabinsk Meteor that came down in 2013, before the explosion and nowhere near as bright but the trajectory as this orange ball of fire was on a very similar angle. I did not see a tail or trail behind it, and it appeared to move at a uniform speed, but slower than one would expect a meteor to fly. This was amazing to watch, I hope I can find out more out about it. I noticed my dog that is a wolf hybrid, seemed mesmerized, and watched it, as I did, until lost from our sight. My dog just stood there and continued to stare in the direction we had seen the fireball fall behind the tree line for several minutes. Direction when I first saw the fireball it was at about 94 degrees East and at about 45 degrees up with the flat horizon being 0 degrees (I do not know the proper term here), and I lost sight of it at about 104 degrees NE at a height of about 25 degrees. It traveled that space in between 15 and 25 maybe 35 seconds.
July 14, 2017 · 10:30 PM · CIGAR
Jacksonville, FL
Cigar shaped craft, bright, with small trail. Moving South to north. Upward trajectory. Craft and trail vanished at the same time. Distance undetermined. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 12, 2017 · 11:50 PM · TRIANGLE
Weston, FL
Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 8, 2017 · 3:11 AM · UNKNOWN
Davie, FL
Our dogs were uncomfortable and excited while we were sleeping. I woke up because of the barking. When I head the back yard I heard a noise like an aircraft engine that increased like acceleration and simultaneously saw a brite white light moving in the back of the building. The engine noise got louder and all of a sudden it stops! My daughter could see the light coming thru her bedroom illuminating the whole room in an angle of less than 45 degrees. The light and the noise were moving in direction WEST-EAST. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 7, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
St. Augustine Beach, FL
Approximately 9:30 pm on July 7, 2017, myself and two friends witnessed several orange glowing objects in the sky, headed from south to north, originating from south of St. Augustine Beach, Florida, unsure of the distance. Most of the objects appeared to be rising from the first sighting with a couple of them getting higher in altitude fairly quickly with others rising fairly slowly. All of the objects eventually disappeared from sight. We also observed several of the objects on July 5, 2017, but only about five and did not seem to last as long in duration as the ones we saw on July 7, 2017. The sighting on July 7, 2017 showed approximately 12 total objects. We have video but it is not very clear. And by the way, it was a full moon and a couple of them flew across the sky in front of the moon. All observers of this phenom are 56 to 66 years of age and have had or currently have professional careers in transportation and education.
July 7, 2017 · 9:21 PM · LIGHT
Ocoee, FL
Sitting on porch. At 21:21 I was already looking at night sky with no disturbance, out of nowhere, three orangeish red lights appeared automatically they were not far nor close. They didn't come from above or below. They stayed. Hovering east to west. One faded, then two faded and the third stayed a full minute longer before fading. At first sight, I jumped up and the other two people followed and stood behind me, I have video and film.
July 5, 2017 · 7:32 PM · LIGHT
Orlando, FL
I was heading out to my front porch, here in East Orlando, about 5 minutes prior to a Space-X Falcon-9 launch of the Intelsat 35e. I am about 37-miles west of the Space X complex at Cape Canaveral, and can see the rockets quite clearly when they launch. As I went out the door, facing east, I noticed a very bright light to the northeast rising upward, about a third of the way off the horizon, initially almost exactly the same speed and curved trajectory a rocket launch would follow to the southeast. I was upset because I thought I had missed the initial launch. I tried to shoot a digital movie of the bright light, but it did not come out as far as I can see. I visually followed the light as it climbed and got smaller and smaller, finally vanishing at high altitude. I was puzzled because the light was an intense white color, and usually rockets at low altitude display a bright orange flame, as I was thinking I had been watching the Falcon-9 launch, and I’ve seen many launches from the Cape over the last 10-years, and what I thought was the launch just didn’t add up. A few minutes later, a 7:37 pm (1937 hours) I saw the bright orange flame of the Falcon-9 booster appear just to the southwest, as it climbed and started to leave a contrail as it went into the upper atmosphere. What really puzzled me, is that I had the impression that the bright light seen a few minutes earlier had been moving a whole lot faster than the rocket after it gained some altitude, I’d say about 4-times faster. I know they prohibit aircraft in the immediate launch area, and the bright light flew directly through it only a few minutes prior to the actual launch. I thought maybe an Air Force jet had left the skid strip on afterburner or something, but I was in the Air Force and never saw an afterburner as bright as that. It was odd, because I really thought I had been watching the launch, and only after I saw the actual launch did I find the whole episode strange.
July 4, 2017 · 9:50 PM · SPHERE
Port Charlotte, FL
While neighbors were lighting off fireworks at 9:45-10:00 pm, I observed a red lighted object in the northern sky, from my screened porch at approx. 40 degrees above horizon in the far distance. Much further below this light was another light that appeared more whitish, but I only got a glimpse of it. I went in and retrieved my binoculars, when I returned, the lower light was out of sight, but I could see the red light very well. The red light object was more ball-shaped with no other lights and was moving slowly westward, almost appeared to be drifting. I was nearly convinced it was a Chinese lantern, but after maybe a minute of observing it, the red light began to pulsate from dim to bright red, repeatedly. When this started, the object seemed to moving along more quickly. Trees in the distance began to block my view and I soon lost complete sight of it. I have found a video on youtube that matches it very well, titled "UFO RED PULSATING OR BLINKING LIGHT FRESNO anyone see this sort of thing?"
July 4, 2017 · 9:42 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
Two bright orange lights moving south to north. No “contrails” seen, no sound. Second light followed path of first light, approximately 10-15 seconds later. Disappeared in extreme northern sky. Sky was clear. Difficult to determine altitude or speed, but seemed to be moving faster than typical aircraft. Steady northward movement, but seemed to have gentle “zig-zag” motion in flight.
July 4, 2017 · 9:40 PM · SPHERE
Orange Park, FL
One reddish green flashing or pulsation orb was moving south east to north west. No sound was noted to this object. The sky was clear and firework had just finished up in the eastern direction. Could not determine speed or height the orb was moving at though it was moving faster than a conventional aircraft and was moving up and down or wobbling at the same time it was moving forward.
July 4, 2017 · 9:30 PM · CIRCLE
Brandon, FL
My wife and I were in our backyard watching fireworks, when we looked to the North and noticed a very bright red/yellow circular object flying east to west. The craft was flying low, no sound, and when it flew under a cloud its lights turned off, but the object was still visible. Two minutes later, a second object, with the same characteristics, flew past, and again extinguished lights and disappeared.
July 4, 2017 · 9:00 PM · CIRCLE
Orlando, FL
Thought maybe firework haze made them appear to fade but I don't think so. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
July 4, 2017 · 5:00 PM · LIGHT
Pembroke Pines, FL
Looking up in the sky with brother in law.. I said, "Wow, look out at the stars. One of those dots is moving, It must be a satellite. Moving in a constant straight line." We both were looking at it, when it suddenly either grew to the size of a silver dollar or shot out a perfect white circular light the size of a silver dollar. And then in a split second went back down to the size of the tiny star size dot. A silver dollar size object in the sky that is a perfect circle and white light looks very weird and should not be there .. The huge circle was in view by both of us and lasted less then a full second. We both said.. "DID YOU SEE THAT? !!!!" It was very weird, so I tried to look up all kind of stuff on the internet but nothing sounded similar.. so I found this report and thought I should at least write about the event.. I can still see it in my mind.. I wish I could have that on video.. I am so happy someone else saw it with me..not sure what it was.. But I have never seen anything do that before.
July 3, 2017 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
New Tampa, FL
At approximately 10 pm, me, my wife and nephew were swimming in our pool. I looked west, northwest and saw a very bright orangish light moving at a very fast speed from north to south. I told my wife and nephew to look and they both saw it. It was traveling much faster than a plane. It almost had the appearance of a shooting star but was on plane, did not have a tail and was a solid light. It was not a firework and we heard no noise. We were all shocked and surprised what we saw and cannot explain it
July 3, 2017 · 8:30 PM · CIRCLE
Miami Beach, FL
As the object came over the beach it began to make erratic movements like slightly back and forth, left to right and in circles. Still this looked like a satellite, but it was changing speed and direction like nothing I'd ever seen in the sky. I pointed it out to my friend and she said the same, it looked like a satellite, then when it started moving in circles she said, "what the hell is that?" Again this looked like a satellite or star, but moved more like a drone of some sort. It was way to high to be a drone though, again planes passing were below it. It seemed somewhere between the stratosphere and mesosphere, very high up. No flashing lights or anything, maybe a weather balloon? My friend and I had seen anything in the sky move the way it did. I went into the water and came back to see if I could find it again with the stars. Again, spotted it by its movement moving towards the city away from the water, but staying above the beach.
July 1, 2017 · 11:18 PM · LIGHT
Jensen Beach, FL
The lighted object appeared in the Eastern sky over the ocean moving slowly from south to the north then raced across the the sky moving incredibly fast and the light git dimmer as it moved north then just disappeared.
July 1, 2017 · 10:00 PM · DISK
Cooper City, FL
I was taking a picture of the moon with my iPhone 7 plus, while sitting in my backyard. At the same moment I pressed the button to snap a pic of the moon, I witnessed a light that zipped across the sky at ridiculous speeds into the area of my camera view. It seemed as though the object zipped into view of the picture just in time to be seen in the photo. When I take pics of moving objects, they always come out blurry. With this object, it's just not the same case. This capture is purely accidental on my part. I did not see anything sitting there for enough time to snap a shot of it. The only evidence I have is the sight of a light moving faster than known flying speeds into my view of the camera and the authentic photo which is original and unaltered. There was no noise from the object and it disappeared as fast as it appeared once picture was taken. This is the absolute first sighting I have ever had. I'm looking forward to someone enhancing the background to show a definitive shape or structure that is difficult to see in its entirety.
June 26, 2017 · 10:00 PM
Florida Coast (at sea), FL
Bright green orb, surrounded by white light, falling straight down from sky. Stormy/cloudy weather.
June 25, 2017 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
North Port, FL
I was sitting inside in my truck it was just getting dark then I saw these very small 2 blue lights heading right for me. As it got closer, they separate and the wind was so strong the truck shook. I know it sounds strange but they almost look like eyes. Black spot was in the center of the blue. no bigger than an egg. They came back around me and took off in the sky faster than any thing I have every seen. I never took any photos so it just my word. It happen in seconds.
June 25, 2017 · 1:15 AM · FORMATION
Titusville, FL
There were 3 separate objects moving at a high rate of speed just above the clouds. Following each other one about 2 minutes in front of the other. Traveling from South to North. They were each identical; glowing orange, like a ball of fire, containing 2 alternating flashing colored lights
June 24, 2017 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Merritt Island (above), FL
3 crafts hovering over Kennedy space center last night. It started with one bright light, very still, then all the sudden, it started hovering around. Soon after, two smaller, dimmer, craft appeared. The two smaller ones were hovering above and around the bigger one. It looked almost as if they were playing with each other. The two smaller ones were there for only a few minutes and they just disappeared. The bigger one got super bright after the smaller ones disappeared. It almost looked like it was coming toward us. It then started getting dimmer until it completely disappeared. Source of the report elects to remain anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
June 24, 2017 · 9:58 PM · LIGHT
Rockledge, FL
I routinely step out at night and scan my sky with binoculars. I live in an active aviation corridor between the coast and Orlando Int Airport, so there is always something flying overhead and I also enjoy spotting stars and planets. Tonite, I stepped out just in time to observe an unusual light travelling south to north. It is quite muggy here, but I had very good viewing conditions, and the sky was relatively dark, as a storm front moving in from the west was blocking light pollution from the Orlando direction. This anomalous light seemed to be at a high altitude , appearing like commercial passenger jet traffic. What really got my attention as unusual was the fluctuations of this light. It was a single source of soft, off white nondescript light. It was a single light source not resembling navigation lighting, and it appeared to be glowing. Its size, though, was about what you might expect had it been an airplane at 30,000 ft. Its intensity varied irregularly and greatly as it travelled rather quickly across the sky. I have seen satellites pass over before, usually as a steady faint light, and twice in a regular sort of flashing, indicating rotation or tumble. That's what I figured I had here at first. But this thing flared , ebbed, waivered and flared in such an irregular pattern,and with irregular intensities. Without ever going completely dark. It was almost spooky. I immediately ran for my tablet and checked the app "Heavens Above" however, it did not indicate the passi! ng of any satellite in this path and heading or even time slot. The steady speed and straight flight would seem to indicate satellite, but I have NEVER seen such a strange light display. It leaves me excited and confounded! I'm not so sure this was any satellite. I don't know WHAT I saw.