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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.
7,220 entries
December 6, 2016 · 1:40 AM · CIRCLE
Sunrise, FL
South Florida sighting. Saw a very bright multi color changing round object. Flew back and fourth, up and down and hovered for several minutes off in the distance. All while changing from blue to red to green to white and all colors in-between. Lights would even shut off for brief moments. Finally started descending to the point it went below the roofs of houses across my neighborhood. Possible landing.
November 28, 2016 · 6:35 PM · CIRCLE
St. Petersburg, FL
There is a circle of bright light off the gulf Coast of florida...near St.Pete Beach.. Star or planet?? PD
November 27, 2016 · 7:30 PM · CIRCLE
St. Petersburg, FL
For the 2nd time this week there is a circular blue light over the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of St. Pete beach...
November 26, 2016 · 10:00 PM · CIRCLE
Davenport, FL
Around 10:00 PM my friend was leaving my house when he saw a bright object floating in the sky. He yelled for me and I walked outside to see a round object that seemed to be on fire. The object made no sound. It had no tail. It didn’t seem to be very far up in the sky but somewhat far. It looked like it was floating across the sky at a medium speed. It was going in a straight line towards the west. We watched it until it disappeared behind houses out of our view. About 10 minutes after seeing the first object, we were watching the sky still and saw another one that looked the same and was traveling at the same speed. The second one was farther from where we saw the first one. It was traveling in the same direction however. We waiting outside for 20 minutes and saw nothing more.
November 26, 2016 · 7:27 PM · LIGHT
Venice, FL
I observed a light that seemed to move and change color almost ranging from a circle to a triangular shape. I then asked my father to come outside to observe he said it is a planet that is visible recently has been there for at least a week. I was not convinced because I witnessed horizontal and vertical movement of light. Although it seemed to be in the same place for around 30 minutes, I recorded video when it's zoomed you can see the movement. To be sure it was moving I took a photo of light with my phone resting on a wall and marked the wall to be sure each photo was taken at the exact same position. This proved movement. I went in my fathers house for 10 minutes or so and the light was gone. I walked approximately 50 feet to me vehicle and observed the light in a new position over a home. At this point movement and color change from greens,blue,red and yellow were visible with the naked eye. Then it quickly disappeared upward out of sight. In addition! during the whole time 3 airplanes were visibly flying near object, and circled multiple times.
November 25, 2016 · 8:00 PM · SPHERE
Vero Beach, FL
At 8pm on Fri. was on cell phone with a girlfriend sitting in a parking lot outside my condo on north AIA in Vero Beach, Fl, and observed a reddish/ orange glowing roundish light coming from the ocean direction. It was quite high, so thought it was an airplane's headlights about to land at the nearby airport. But oddly, the object didn't seem to turn, it seemed to "float across the sky from east toward the west crossing over Hwy AiA. Within seconds saw another identical object on the same path. Within the next 20 to 30 minutes, objects greatly increased in number with same "glow" and were really close to each other. It looked like floating Chinese lanterns, and within the next 20 minutes, as many as 2 dozen of these glowing objects had passed over A1A appearing to make a really wide circle in the sky. Informed my friend of this usual phenomenon as we continued to chat. Because I was speaking to her, it never occurred to me to video it with my cell phone. Rather, I passed it off as some type of local celebration...i.e. A Chinese celebration?...of which I was unaware. I spoke about 30 minutes with my friend, all the while these objects were "floating by." Not a single neighbor came into the parking lot for me to point this oddity out to them. I did see several cars pass my building on Hwy A1A and pointed to the sky, but none stopped to look. Upon entering my apt, I googled for information about this "light show" but as of now, haven't read anything that explains their presence.
November 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Brandon, FL
My wife and I watched this thing for 5 minutes as it circled as if it was waiting to land at the St Pete, Fl, airport. This thing was engulfed in flames flying in the air. As it got further another plane was close to it. We then saw 3 flashes of flames, then it disappeared. Did the other plane shoot it down? No news reports or anything online
November 25, 2016 · 6:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Port Orange, FL
I contacted the sheriff's office to inquire whether their chopper was out tonight and was told that it was not. I was eventually redirected to the UFO hot line, where I stated my case on the answering machine and then came to report the incident here.
November 24, 2016 · 7:30 PM · UNKNOWN
Largo, FL
Event location was identified using the OrionTelescopes.com “The Evening Sky for November 2016. Event was located in the most western side of the Draco Constellation just southeast of the double star. Item was traveling in an erratic pattern with no exact direction of travel. Movement appeared continuous for the 20 minute viewing time. Attempted to send .jpg of location but ufocntr@nwlink.com failed to open.
November 24, 2016 · 6:30 PM · SPHERE
Oldsmar, FL
This was not truly an UFO as I did not see it fly. What happened was that my dog noticed and went to sniff this dull cream colored sphere that looked like a deflated balloon sitting on the mulch near my front door. My dog took one sniff and left it alone. It was about 5"-6" diameter and some crazy reason I had to go and reach out to it. As soon as I was about to touch it, it changed to look like a white opalescent glass globe, kind you see on top of the decorative neighborhood light posts (like in my neighborhood), but half the size. I put my hand on it and it felt just like glass. I tried to move it as it was obviously in wrong place but I was unable to shift it. It was like welded to the ground. I was thinking how peculiar place they have put the light as there was nothing pretty about the mulch. The lights were not on yet on the street lights. About an hour later I took my dog out again and the sphere was gone. Not only was it gone but there was nothing showing on the mulch or the ground that the sphere had been there. I was alone in the building this Thanksgiving day so I could not ask anyone if they had seen it too. NUFORC Noe: We spoke via telephone with the witness, and she assured us that her report is sincere. She sounded to us to be quite eloquent, and serious-minded. PD
November 22, 2016 · 9:10 PM · CHEVRON
Largo, FL
Very dim white lighting, appr 5 evenly spaced lights down each leg of the chevron. Glided by in total silence, headed in a south direction. We viewed it for appr 3 seconds. It was not flying particularly fast and did not seem to be more than 5000 to 8000 feet in altitude. Both of us seen it clearly, and passed by in total utter silence.
November 22, 2016 · 11:00 AM · CHEVRON
Floral City, FL
I was driving East on Highway 48 toward Bushnell, Florida. I saw something pyramid shaped in the sky directly in front of me. It was very shiny & was reflecting the sun. I can't be sure whether or not it was emitting any light because I assumed the sun's reflection was what made it look so bright. It looked like it was made out of shiny sheet metal. It wasn't moving at all. I told my 5 year old son to look up at the sky but by the time I pointed to it, it was gone. He did not see it & I continued to look for it for a few minutes but could not find it again. I've never seen anything like this before & what really amazed me was that it didn't fly away quickly, it just disappeared completely.
November 21, 2016 · 11:35 PM · LIGHT
Key Colony Beach, FL
The door that the lights appeared through is on the second floor facing the North, towards a street in Key Colony Beach, Florida, that has a speed limit of 25 MPH (West Ocean Drive) directly across from a restaurant named the Key Colony Inn, with four palm trees in close proximity (within 20 feet) of it. Anyway, I showed the footage to a few of my colleagues at work. The most viable explanation that any of them provided was a search light from a helicopter. We have had a lot of Cubans making landfall, via water on crude rafts, in an attempt to establish citizenship in the USA recently, so, it made sense, and I dismissed it as such. However, after work, I reviewed the footage on the larger screen of my computer, turned up the volume, and then slowed it down to see frame-by-frame detail. Upon doing so, it appeared to me as though it was unlikely this was from a helicopter. For one, there was no audible noise, other than a low continuous white noise from a box fan, that was set to low, on the other side of the kitchen wall in the foreground of the video. Second of all, there seemed to be four light source locations in the three seconds or so that it lasted, and those lights did not seem to sweep from side to side; rather, they seemed to be moving, primarily from right to left (East to West) based on how the shadows of the palm trees and railing outside were cast on the window of the door. Not to mention the lights did not seem to be originating from high enough to support the helicopter theory. I have also tried to dismiss this as electricity arcing from the power lines to palm trees that are in the general direction of the light sources in the video (about 100 feet from the door), as they are very close to the power lines; however, I would think that an arc this bright should make a noise. Please correct me if I am wrong. The first light source, based on the height of the railing in relation to the shadow that was cast on the door, as well as the palm frond that is most likely casting a shadow on the door, seems to have originated from the parking lot of the condominium complex to the West of the one that I live in, or slightly closer, but in line with that parking lot. It also looks as though there was two light sources, one dimmer and slightly lower than the other, as the top of the concrete railing, that is outside the door, has a double shadow. The second and third light sources seen seem to be traveling primarily from East to West, very rapidly at one point, based on the sudden change of the railing shadow position from one frame to the next, yet it is a bit more confusing, as far as source position and direction of travel; however, I believe it is actually two light sources that come close together, as it is nearly void of a palm tree shadow after a few frames, and at that time it is casting an overlapping shadow of the diamond shapes present in the concrete railing. The fourth light source is only visible for about four frames (two frames of bright light); however, the light source seems to be a little more visible in the window. I am not an expert at assessing light sources by examining shadows. However, it would appear as though all of the lights came from the same area, and not very far from my apartment, as I took photographs from outside to see where a source would need to be to cast shadows from the various palm trees on the window of the door. I’ll be emailing the video clip, as well as the photographs of the area outside the door, to include a photo that shows the view seen from inside the door, looking out, as well as a snip from Google Earth that shows the location of my apartment with a blue dot. I’ve been scratching my head for a couple of days now, and decided to reach out to the experts to help try to make sense of this event. Thank you for any input you can provide about this matter.
November 21, 2016 · 6:00 AM · SPHERE
Miramar Beach, FL
I was on vacation from 11/19-11/26/16 in Destin Florida, specifically Miramar Beach and staying at Maravilla Condos on Scenic Gulf Highway. I got up most all mornings and took sunrise and sunset pictures. Most of the time due to glare and using a Samsung S6 phone I usually couldn’t view my pictures that well until after I came back into the condo. On this particularly clear morning I came back in and later in the day checked the pictures I had taken that day. At first I thought I had taken picture of the moon as well as the sun. Then realized the moon wasn’t in a full stage nor have been that close to the sun. In enlarging the pictures on my phone and again now on my computer, I pick up a distinct looking sphere which almost appears to have 4 windows on it. Many of the pictures I took from the same standing point. The object however did not stay in the same place in the photo. It had moved in all pictures. Again, I did not see this during taking them nor was focusing on it. The sun is so bright coming up that you probably couldn’t have seen anything else in the sky but the sun at this point anyway. I always take a series of pictures to make sure I get at least a couple good ones that I can put on my computer for a screen saver. I have 8 pictures where this object appears. Even moving into the sand dunes very close to where I was standing. If you enlarge the closest 1 of those, you can almost see a head like object with what appears to be 2 eyes in this small slice of an object that appears right over the sphere. In no other pictures I took throughout my entire vacation did this object appear in any picture so it wasn’t something on my phone camera lense.
November 19, 2016 · 10:00 PM · LIGHT
Apollo Beach, FL
Red-orange light almost hovering over Apollo Beach, then takes off into the clouds. Has returned twice within 20 min. No noise associated with light, and it doesn't follow the normal aircraft flight profile over Apollo Beach. We suspect a nighttime sighting, and have changed the time above. PD
November 19, 2016 · 7:00 PM · CIRCLE
Boynton Beach, FL
We were walking our dog in Boynton Beach, Florida, around 7:00 pm when we saw this strange round red orange object moving low in the sky . It caught our attention because it was flying low. We were very concerned because it didn't look like an airplane or helicopter in the night sky and it was very quiet. It was traveling from north to south on the eastern sky about a minute and a half. Suddenly, it went up high in the sky and form an interesting shape. The shape looked to us like a waxing crescent moon with the red orange ball in the center and white lights above and below the circle forming the crescent moon and then it disappeared. We were not the only ones watching. Some of our neighbors were out there too. Interesting sight !
November 19, 2016 · 6:30 PM · FIREBALL
Zephyrhills, FL
Streaks of fire following under unknown object climbing into sky. Thought it might have been a launch from Cape Canaveral, but no info online. Fire went out after it reached so high into the sky. Stayed in sky, hovering for like 2min., then shot back down towards land. Turned red halfway down and disappeared. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 19, 2016 · 6:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Brandon, FL
Brandon Florida November 19, 2016 standing outside to see the space shuttle take off it was approximately 6:30 pm and towards the north was this large bright light my mother and I told my daughter it was a street lamp a few streets over. Then I turn away and back again and wow it grew brighter a slight amber glow. it moved a bit so immediately knew it was not a lamp post! It hoovered for about a minute. There was a food delivery person at a neighbors walking back to his car I said to him hey what do you think that is pointing to this big rather low now flying towards us object! He said wow I'd like to say it's a plane but wow I can't I don't know what it is! We all stood andcwatched it fly over us when it was picking up speed and altitude we seen it flip on its side (idk if it was its actual side maybe it was on the side before! Idk) watched it the lights dimmed and then there were three red lights this thing appeared to be a triangle shaped object large quite and thin. Then it quickly disappeared! .
November 19, 2016 · 11:30 AM · CHEVRON
Largo, FL
I was in the back yard with my dogs and talking on the phone when I happened to see a blue chevron shaped object traveling from west to east. I abruptly ended my call so that I could capture this on video. By the time I ended the call I noticed it was difficult to capture as the object changed shape?? It looked more disc like and was doing odd maneuvers; darting from side to side, up and down and very high rates of speed and I would lose sight of it. However, I did get a short clip.
November 19, 2016 · 9:00 AM · UNKNOWN
Cape Coral, FL
Saw a strange object that I thought was a plane make slow floating pattern over sky. It had two bottom blue lights and a top red light. I couldn't make it out definitely, but I knew it wasn't a plane. It got smaller and smaller as the minutes passed. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 16, 2016 · 6:00 PM · LIGHT
Frostproof, FL
Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 14, 2016 · 7:30 PM · TRIANGLE
Deltona, FL
I was driving south east with 2 other people in the car. I seen an object in the sky triangular in shape, with a light on each corner, and an orb like light in the center which appeared to be glowing from the top as well as the bottom. It was flying approximately 100 feet from the ground and was flying very slow as I passed underneath it. When I realized it was not a plane or helicopter I took out my phone and as soon as I pressed record the flying object sped up and left the area.
November 14, 2016 · 7:17 PM · LIGHT
Jacksonville, FL
I was driving home with my mother on 11.14.16. Once we turned into our complex I stopped at a stop sign. I noticed an exceptional bright star and mentioned it to my mom. Then it went dim! This freaked me out. I was sure it was the North Star until that happened. We continued to our house but I kept my eyes on it. The star started to move slowly behind a tree line near race track. I ran into our house and pointed it out to my husband, from our backyard patio. He insisted it was a plane but there was no blinking of red/blue lights. It was just a bright light moving slowly. I am beyond convinced that I saw a UFO. Witness elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD
November 13, 2016 · 9:25 PM · OVAL
Coconut Creek, FL
I was walking my dog, when at about 9:20pm, I noticed a bright, pulsating orange light in the sky to the east. It moved slowly,and occasionally the light would dim completely and I could make out a round/oval silhouette. The object then turned to the north and vanished entirely. A few moments later, a second orange light appeared low in the eastern sky. I started video recording with my phone. It was exactly like the first - shining brightly then dimming, moving slowly to the north before disappearing. A few seconds later, a third light appeared. Its appearance and movement was exactly like the two previous. I also recorded this one. The three objects did not make the slightest sound. My dog did not react other than get a little antsy, but she has a hyper disposition anyway. As far as I could tell, I was the only witness. However, these lights/objects flew over a golf course on a college campus (Broward College) - so it's very possible that, although it was Sunday night, someone else saw them. I will send the videos I took of the second and third light/objects.