UFO Sightings/Florida

UFO Sightings: Florida

Reported By: Jason - Jacksonville, Florida - July 27, 2006

Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Jacksonville, Florida - Date:July 26, 2006 - Time: 9:30 PM - County Sighting Took Place: Duval - Witnesses: 3 - Number of Objects: 3 - Object's Shape: "Other" - Object had lights - Object hovered
Event_Description:
While driving to see a friend as I got out of class at the Deerwood Campus FCCJ I was driving along Southside Boulevard towards The Avenues Mall. I came up the strip mall that has Borders and OfficeMax in it. I noticed a cluster of lights; blue, white, and red. A couple of the lights were blinking and it looked sort of like a blimp with a slight tilt. At first there was only one cluster of lights, but as I went under the Southside Boulevard Ramp that takes you from I-95 to Southside Boulevard, I noticed there were TWO clusters of lights, about 600 ft. In the sky. I watched them hover, while trying to drive. I heard no sound of airplanes or helicopters.

These two clusters of lights were spaced apart about 150 ft, hovered in one place for about one minute, then headed towards downtown Jacksonville. Then, a third cluster of lights, with no visible body holding it together comes along the same path towards Southside Blvd, from the southeast. It heads north above Southside Boulevard to about Beach Blvd. and heads towards downtown as well.

I just had to stop somebody to look at it so I could make sure I wasn't cracking up so I went to the parking lot of the Avenues Mall and saw a girl walking out to her car. By that time the pair of light clusters had made another trip, directly over the Avenues Mall. I stopped her and told her to look up in the sky towards Baymeadows Road. She saw them and her reaction was a lot like mine, confusion and amazement! She didn't know what they were either. A security officer pulls up and says he believes they're military craft which had been out there that evening.

All I know is that I was totally baffled by what I'd seen, it was enough to freak ME out and the girl that was in the parking lot at the Avenues. I find it hard to believe that military planes are going to hover 600 ft. STATIONARY over an area like that.

Reported By: "C.L." - Pinellas Park, Florida - April 8, 2004
Subject: UFOSighting/Unexplained Event - Location: Outskirts of Orlando on I-95 - Date: February 7, 2004 - Time: 9:45 PM - Witnesses: 2 - Object's Shape: Fireball - Number of Objects: 3 - Object had lights - Object left a vapor trail - There were aircraft in the area - Additional Information: On left side of nterstate I-95 going north
Event Description:
On 2-7-04 at approx. 9:45 PM, my roommate and I were on our way back home from St. Augustine, Florida and we were nearing toward Orlando.

She looked up into the sky off toward the left in front of us and said "Look, what is that?" As I looked up we saw 2 balls of fire that were flowing in a straight path with a trail of fire behind them. After approx. 10 seconds one would fade out and then after about 3 seconds come back in the form of the ball of fire and the tail. The 2nd would do the same thing.

While it was glowing and fading out, it was remaining in a small spot. It then began to swirl and turn while still in the same small area in the sky. No noise was heard and then after about 3 minutes of seeking these same large objects, they disappeared. Approx. 2 minutes off to the right of us there were 2 big balls of light that were blinking. One was up ahead and the other looked to be following. The object would emit 3 blinking lights that went blink blink blink, pause blink blink blink, pause and this kept repeating. They too disappeared after about 5-8 minutes.

I do know that what we experienced was not an airplane or fire works or blimp. These were large balls of swirling and disappearing fire that hung and went straight and looked to swirl.

I have never seen anything like this in all my life but know that this will not be the last time for strange appearances.

Reported By: Mark C. - Jacksonville, Florida - November 3, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Jacksonville, Florida - Date: December 25, 1999 - Time: 1:45 AM - County Sighting Took Place: Duval - Zip Code: 32210 - Witnesses: 1 - Object's Shape: Cigar - Number of Objects: 1 - The event took place near a Military Airfield or Base - Additional Information: Westside
Event Description:
It was Christmas of 1999. My wife and I had just finished setting out all of the kids presents under the tree. The time was about 1:45 AM. We don't smoke in the house so we went out on the back porch to smoke a last cigarette before going to bed. My wife sat in the chair on the porch and I was standing at the foot of the steps, leading to the yard. It was very cold that night. The back of our house faces west.

As I was smoking my cigarette I was looking at the tree line behind us. At that time something caught my eye. It was long, I would say the length of a football field flying about 400 to 500 ft. above the ground. It had no lights visible, and no sound. It was moving about 30 MPH I would say. It had a dark brown color and looked like it had sections to it.

I watched it for a second before I could speak. I said to my wife "Do you see that?". She said, "See what?". I kept my eye on it as she was coming over to where I was standing. As I was starting to point it out to her it went behind the tree line and disappeared from my site. I have never seen anything before, and I am the kind of person that you will have to show me something for me to believe it.

I seek proof. I still do not know what it was. I can only assume that it was a real UFO or that I was one of the fortunate people to see Santa Claus and his reindeer flying over. The weird thing about it most is, we are less than 4 miles from Cecil Field Navy Base.( at least it used to be before they closed it down and Boeing bought a major part of it).

How low do you have to fly to not show up on radar?

Reported By: "Hypnoasp" - Jacksonville, Florida - October 8, 2003
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida - Date: October 15, 1994 - Time: 2:00 AM - Witnesses: 2 - Object's Shape: "Changing" - Number of Objects: 1-3 - Object had lights - Object became transparent
Preface:
The following incident occurred about ten years ago. Strangely it was not important to me until the past few years. It is really bothering me now.

I have scoured the Internet for an incident similar to mine and have come up empty handed. Of the hundreds of alleged reports I have scoured, the only similar detail I have run across two large football field size triangle incidents. Though the happenings, light configuration, etc., do not match what I saw.

I am scientific minded and believe in UFOs and aliens 100% (or at least the possibility). However, I do strongly feel that most like minded are delusional, easily led, lying or just plain crazy. I have only told a few people my experience as I do not want others to categorize me as such. Maybe I was crazy at the time. I do not really know where to turn with such a story or how to research my incident. It's just plain driving me nuts.
Event Description:
In the fall (it was just starting to get cool here) of '93 or '94 (sorry not sure) My girlfriend and I were watching our local PBS station and we caught the star guys show. He advised that the most spectacular meteor shower in decades would be visible in our area away from city lights in a few days.

Later we packed a picnic, binoculars and a blanket and headed off for The Cross Roads at Ponte Vedra Beach. The Cross Roads is a portion of beach so named after the sole condo complex near by. Ponte Vedra beach is an affluent wealthy area of our shore line.

At the time of the sighting, The Cross Roads was situated in a wooded isolated area of the beach. Traditionally this area was our High Schools "domain of the beach" (though located over 30 miles from it and we were both in our 2nd year of college). You would park in a small, unmarked wooded public beach access area (as the affluent were dying to kill the public beach access). From there a long, narrow sand trail would lead you to the beach.

The left of the trail was first a dune and ravine forest graduating into sandy dunes and finally the beach. The right of this trail was the Complexes tall, dividing cement wall. To the left in the ravine forest was a single isolated Stilted "UFO looking" beach house. If you were not familiar with the area you would never in a million years notice this house due to the wooded cover.

Upon arriving and during our trek down the sand path we noticed many children (rather children sized forms, it was dark) with flash lights scampering through out the dunes and wooded ravines. Glancing behind us we could see lights and figures coming over the wall and scampering off into the woods and dunes. We could here distant giggles and chatter. The tide was low on this clear night and the trek down the beach was quite long.

We set out our blanket ate and watched the stars. We waited and began the "I think I saw one" game. Getting bored, we would watch the now "pin points" of the children's flash lights in the wooded dunes. From our distance they now looked like fireflies in a forest. Finally we began seeing first a few and then multitudes. It turned out that the shower was so massive that we did not need the binoculars at all. The frequency now constant and duration now seemingly never ending we again grew bored.

Here is where things get queer. For some reason I started looking down the beach northward up in the sky and slowly walked the shore line. My girlfriend began asking me if a was seeing a shooting star, though I would not answer her. My walk got faster, then a jog, still looking up at a certain portion of the northern sky. I did not see anything, though something was not right in that area. I don't know what. I just had to figure it out.

For some reason I thought that If I could just get the right view I would see something grand. A cluster of shooting stars, a huge shooting star or the big finale, I really don't know what I was expecting to see, but I knew I was on to something!!

This is the only way I can explain what happened next. On this dark beach we were on, the lights just turned on. Once dark, now sunlit. Two hundred feet away from me was seemingly a dead ringer for the biblical picture of God coming through a cloud as light. Though due to the bright light I did not see the cloud, but a seemingly point of origin and this point of origin was at tree level a few hundred feet down the beach from me and it was huge!!

At this point I was slowly backing up and I felt my girlfriends hand clasp mine from behind me. There was no sound at all, period. The bright area of light did not emit a sound. The ocean did not emit a sound. Nothing made a sound and the wind had abruptly stopped. Slowly and silently it glided (I guess) towards us. Eventually we could tell it was a huge triangle. I say glided, but it was very queer. It wasn't moving in a normal way. In fact it was not moving but getting closer. There was no deviation, if was the perfect we were the flawed. Hmm that just sounded crazy...

O.K. It's like this; We have all seen the special effect shows where they have computer generated wire framed models on their computer screens. Imagine a 3d rendered rotating wire frame model of the earth. Now somehow affix a lighted wire frame model of a triangle to a point in space on your version of our universe. The earth continues its orbit but the triangle is affixed to its location. Soon the earth's path includes the triangle. The triangle as a result pierces the earth and the earth travels until the triangle pierces the other side. Since this whole scenario is computer generated it is mathematically perfect, hence no deviation..........

So it was not "flying" it was just "there" but getting closer. Ever so slowly it came down the beach towards us. Above us we could see the object was not one but three. Though it acted like one. Take a triangle cut it in three equal sizes (down the pyramid) and space these three segments apart only a hair. It slowly walked us (or we walked it) back to our blanket. We stopped on our blanket and it continued down the beach again a few hundred feet. Then the light just went out. It did not speed off. It did not "wobble" off. It did not split into others. It just plain wasn't there.

The wind began. The sea made sound again. Darkness surrounded us and the noises of life returned. Let me add here that we were not disturbed, excited, scared or even really inquisitive during this whole ordeal. That's nuts!

We slowly gathered our things exclaimed we were both tired and trekked back to our car. The "assumed" children were gone and only a few lights were on in the complex. I remember my girlfriend was upset with me as I exclaimed I was too tired to drive. so was she. We did not utter one word of it to each other during the incident or the whole drive home. I do remember that I thought of it occasionally on our long drive back.

We arrived home and went to bed. The next day we still had not uttered a word about it. I remember coming home that evening and going through the paper to see if it had made headlines. When I heard my girlfriend coming in from another room, I promptly hid the papers as if I did not want her to know what I was looking for. Perhaps a year went by and we were in a bar. Both really drunk surrounded by friends. My girlfriend announced that we had seen a UFO once and I was going to tell the story. Shocked and shyly I told our tale. First giving out only basic information (didn't want to sound like a crack pot) and gradually giving more details after her urging and confirmation. Our stories matched!!!

This thing was huge! The size of a football field at least. It also lit up the entire beach. This all occurred in front of a huge condo complex, children (I think) and on a night when people were supposed to be looking up at the sky. Yet there was no local talk, no media attention or even "crack pots," nothing! Even if it was "swamp gas" or "tectonic light eminence"

It was a huge spectacle, someone had to see it. Why didn't I at least hear a newscaster announce "next up, a huge ball of swamp gas lit up the beaches sky"? Why has this been trivial to me until recent years?

Reported By: Dominic O. - West Palm Beach, Florida - March 25, 2002 at 13:43:25
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: West Palm Beach, Fl - - Date: 3\24\02 - Time: 10:48 PM
County sighting took place: Palm Beach County - Zip Code: 33410 - Witnesses: 2
Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object had an Aura or Haze around it
Object hovered - There were aircraft in the area
Event Description:
I looked out my bedroom window at 10:48 PM. I saw a blueish white light in the sky at about 500 feet in the air. It was circular and had red strobe lights that flashed around the circumference of the light. I had seen the same object on the 19th and 20th of March northeast of my position. There were no stars those nights.

But on the night of March 24th, it was northwest of my position. I did not see it in it's position because I just happened to look out my bedroom window to see if it was in its usual northeast spot. It hovered in the air until I heard the rumble of jet engines.

That night there were some low clouds, but otherwise it was clear. I was then able to positively identify two F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter planes tear through one of the low clouds like something in an action movie. As soon as they did the object started flying away from my position. It continued to do so until it was completely out of visual range. As soon as I made that observation the object zoomed accross the sky like a meteor at what seemed to me light speed.
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Reported By: Shawn M. - Sarasota, FL - February 2, 2002 at 05:50:12
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Sarasota, FL - Zip Code: 34236 - Date: ??/??/1998 - Time: 1 or 2 AM
County sighting took place: Sarasota - Witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Triangle - Number of objects: 3
Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object changed colors - Object became transparent
The event took place near A Military Airfield or Base - There was a Radio and or TV transmitter near by
Additional Information: The Downtown area of Sarasota, 54 mi. S. of Tampa
Event Description:
When the event took place, there was a coffee shop that I frequented that had the unlikely hours of 9 PM to 5 AM, made specifically for night-owls like myself. It was called Central Perk (not named after the "Friends " coffee shop, it was actually located on Central Ave).

I was sitting at an outside table with a friend, just talking. Suddenly, he shouted "Holy ----!" and pointed behind me. I turned around to see three triangular objects not far off (walking thirty feet put us directly under them) and about as high as a 15 story building, I supposed. They were in a formation like a flock of birds, one on point and two side by side just behind it and made no sound whatsoever.

We watched them pass by directly overhead and noticed that they had sort of a shifting, multicolored light to them, sort of like the colors in an opal, only they would move around on the surface of the craft. I would like to note that these colors didn't seem at all to have been projected onto the craft from an outside source, but to have been produced from the craft themselves. They flew close enough that I could infer an idea of the shape of the bottom of the craft, which I took to be thick in the middle, curving upward on either side and back down at the points. So that the bottom half of a cross-section would look like a pair of arches, with the middle point rounded. I could not begin to infer what the top looked like.

The craft moved slowly and in a straight line heading more or less north. They made no noise and after we watched them for about ninety seconds, they FADED out. Like in a "cheesy" ghost movie when the ghost appears solid, but then slowly fades to nothingness. That's what they did.

Jim's "Holy ----" was due to the fact that the ships appeared the same way. If Jim had seen these alone and told me about it, I would never have believed him, as he was a notorious drunk. I, however, do not drink or do any sort of drugs.

I haven't told too many people about it, but no one's called me a loony or anything. I just have never heard or read an account of ships that look like the ones I saw and I hoped that maybe someone will read this and have seen similar ships so I won't end up thinking that I just have a flawed memory of the events.

(There is a Military Airstrip about 55 miles north at MacDill AF base, a commercial Airport about three miles north and a radio tower for WSRZ about six miles to the west of the site if that's relevant.
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Reported By: Name Withheld - Salem, Florida - January 24, 2002 at 21:16:16
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Salem, Florida - Date: January 23, 2002 - Time: 11:15 PM
County sighting took place: Taylor - Zip Code: 32348 - Witnesses: 2
Objects Shape: Diamond - Number of objects: 4 - Object had lights - Object emitted other objects
Object changed colors - Object hovered
Event Description:
Around 11:15 PM I had just laid down on my couch to go to sleep and the hunting dogs across the street began to bark continuously and then our two dogs began to bark near our front gate to our property. I need to add that there are no residents across the street (or anywhere near us. We are way out in the woods.) The land is used for hunting and is heavily wooded.

I kept looking out to see what all of the dogs were barking at and the first couple of times I saw nothing. The next time the barking began I decided to get up one more time and look out. As soon as I opened my front door, I noticed a bright object above the trees across the street from our home.

I sat and waited to see if the object appeared to be coming closer, because at first I thought it might have been an airplane coming straight on because it seemed to be a horizontal line of red and blue lights. After a few moments, I realized that this object was not moving. It was hovering and pulsating these red and blue colors. There was no sound except for the barking of the dogs across the street at this point.

Once I realized what I truly might have been witnessing, I ran inside to wake up my teenage daughter and asked her to put her glasses on and come tell me what she sees. I ran to grab my digital camera and then remembered that my husband took it with him on his hunting trip!

She went to the front door and started to become very frightened. She begged me to call the police. I just giggled and told her that they would think we were crazy if this thing disappeared by the time they got here. I ran back inside and searched for our binoculars and I have to admit that I was truly frightened by this thing in the sky!

It was a diamond shape that had a pulsating red glow around the outside of it and the only way I can describe the center is that it had a pattern that resembled marble or a marble effect to it. The bluish light pulsated around the marble like lines. By this point my daughter was truly frightened and went back in her room!

I stayed sitting on the ground using my knees as leverage so my hands wouldn't shake the binoculars so much. After a short time of watching this thing, I noticed a small red dot come from it and move to the left of it...then another came out proceeded by one more. The red dots all moved (slowly) to the left and then eventually out of my view.

I waited a while to see if the object would move but I have to admit that I let my fear get the best of me. I started thinking about the stories of abductions so I went back to my couch and covered up. I figured that I will just keep getting up occasionally and peer out the window to see if there was a change and my dogs would definitely start barking if something would happen. I kept getting up to look but there was no change.

I must have dozed off and the next thing I know is my front door is opening (around 1:30 AM) It was my daughter. She looked back and told me it was gone! I got up to look and the thing was gone! I am going to be more prepared next time (I hope there is a next time!)
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Reported By: Nancy - Port St. Lucie, Florida -Saturday, January 19, 2002 at 11:48:52
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Key Largo, Florida - Date: 1/16/02 - Time: 9:00 PM - Witnesses: 2
Objects Shape: Other - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object hovered
There were aircraft in the area - The event took place near A Military Airfield or Base
Additional Information: Approximately 2 miles from the Atlantic Ocean
Event Description:
On vacation in Key Largo, I was standing on the terrace, watching the stars on a clear, dark night, no moon visable. Earlier, there had been a rather nasty traffic accident not far from where I was staying, and the Medivac Helicopters had been in the vicinity.

Also, there were several Police Helicopters seeming to be searching the area for several minutes. Unfortunately, this area of the United States is known for illegal 'drug running' due to it's remoteness and closeness to many islands in the Carribean.

During this 'busy' period in the sky, I noticed a slow moving object, very high up in the night sky. It's location was so high, I couldn't comprehend it being part of any potential 'scouting trip." Using a pair of binoculars, my friend and I noticed that this object had lights flashing red and green, similar to that of an aircraft.

We continued to watch and as we did, the object began to change from a hovering position to one of movement. It would 'zig zag' to the right and left, up and down very quickly and then seemed to return to it's original 'hover' position. We watched for over an hour. By that time, the other aircraft has long disappeared.

In all honesty, it's appearance resembled a star, twinkling red and green and at an extremely high altitude. What seemed so unusal to me was the length of time this object 'hovered.' No other aircraft came near it whether it was hovering or moving place to place.

After approximately an hour and a half of observing this, the object simply disappeared.
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Reported by: Unknown - November 18, 2001 at 05:19:22
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Jacksonville, FL. - Date: 11/17/01 - Time: 08:30 PM
Zip Code: 32246 - County sighting took place: Duval - Witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Light
Number of objects: 4 - Sighting took place near: A Military Airfield or Base - Additional Info: Front Yard
Event Description:
A friend came over. I took my telescope out to show the kids Saturn and Jupiter. While I was centering the scope on Saturn to the East the oldest girl age 12 tapped me on the shoulder and said "What's that?" I looked to where she was pointing towards the NE and 4 balls of light traveling in a straight line, formation style, went by heading due south.

From when I saw the lights till they disappeared over the trees, lasted about 3 seconds. My best guess at speed would be the lights traveled from the Georgia-Florida State line to St. Augustine in approximately 3 seconds. Total length of formation 10-15 miles.

I have no perception of the altitude of the lights. Could have been 30k feet to thirty miles. It was the strangest thing I have seen in the skies. No sound was emitted and a very calm came to me as I watched. The lights were 10-15 times the size of Jupiter that night. Would like to know if anyone else along the coast saw the lights I described.
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Reported By: Sarah - West Palm Beach, FL - April 27, 2001 at 18:19:48
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: West Palm Beach, FL - Date: 4/20/01 - Time: 6:30 AM
County sighting took place: Palm Beach County - Witnesses: 1
Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object hovered
Additional Information: FL Turnpike, southbound, north of Belvedere Overpass
Event Description:
At 6:30 in the morning I was driving southbound on FL Turnpike. Looking out the upper left area of my windshield, I saw a green oblong light in the sky. It was shaped like a thin vitamin capsule and pale green.

Its size was difficult to determine, but it seemed to take up an inch in my visual field. I watched trying to determine what it was connected to and I saw it was above wires and no towers of any kind could be seen in the vicinity. I stared for a while, long enough to question what it was, my guess about 4 seconds. Then it appeared to move away, that is, it became smaller in my visual field in two movements. I do not believe in extra terrestrials. I do believe in military weapons.
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Reported By: Andrew B. - Brandon, Florida - March 13, 2001 at 16:15:44
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Brandon, Florida - County: Hillsbrough- Date: 3-7-01 - Time: 9:3 PM
Objects Shape: Triangle - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object left a vapor trail
Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object hovered
Event Description:
I was looking up, talking with my dad when I seen the ship, it glowed real bright and 'Triangle' shaped. I saw it for a few seconds, then it disappeared.
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Reported By: Peter H. - Edinburgh, Great Britain - February 18, 2001 at 14:23:19
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Florida, Orlando - Date: 02/15/2001 - Time: 10.30 PM
Witnesses: 8 - Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 7 - Object had lights - Object hovered
Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object emitted other objects - There were aircraft in the area
Event took place near A Military Airfield/Base - Additional Info: 3 or 4 miles out from S. Port Canaveral
Event Description:
My girlfriend and I where on our last night of a vacation in Indian Harbour and decided to take a trip out to sea on a sterling casino liner. We set sail at 7:00 PM from S. Port Canaveral on Thursday, February 15th.

At about ten thirty-ish we walked up onto the upper decks to take in the night air. I must note here that neither of us drink alcohol, we where both completely sober. While we where on deck, my girlfriend noticed a set of six strange red lights flying around in the relatively clear nights sky about two or three miles out to sea. We were already about three miles out from shore. We watched as these red lights darted around in a seemingly random fashion, though in tight formation, their actions reminded us both of birds darting around each other in a small flock, these though where not birds, planes, kites, flares or helicopters, as they traveled at a terrific speed and with precise movements.

After about ten seconds of swooping around, they each gathered together in an ordered line, one behind the other, once at an equal distance apart they formed a slightly arched circle in the sky, they seemed to vanish from view as they passed towards the back of the circle. I would estimate the circle to be about two hundred feet in circumference. Five of the lights then vanished leaving only one, which flashed on and off, the other lights did not flash, but remained constant when in view. This single red light then moved off slowly for a few moments, before coming to a halt in the sky.

It was now that we both noticed another light, larger and circular in shape, a hazy white light, which pulsated faintly. It seemed, we thought at first, to be a light house but this idea was dashed when it suddenly lifted itself up into the air about roughly two or three hundred feet, before sinking back towards the ground again after a short period. (Note: we did see a lighthouse as we sailed back into port and the white light we saw had no resemblance too it whatsoever.) It seemed to me to be reacting with the flashing red light, which was still hovering about a mile, or two to it's left.

Suddenly, and this freaked us both out, six red lights reappeared from within the flashing light, the first firing directly down into the ocean below, you could tell it entered the ocean because it seemed to dim slightly as it reached the water and vanished. The other four shot out as fast as bullets, also towards the ocean but they were fired at a slightly different trajectory to the first. They shot towards the water but before they hit the waves, they turned at a sharp 45 degree angle, without changing speed, without a noise or fluctuation in the lights intensity, before flying in formation just above the ocean surface, maybe only feet away from the water, each on a slightly wider sweep than the first. Their lights clearly illuminating the water below before eventually disappearing about five seconds later. We can't be certain if they just vanished, entered the water or just simply raced over the horizon, these things where not rockets, as we at first thought, as the sudden change of direction at that terrific speed easily canceled that out beyond a shadow of a doubt. They also left no vapour/smoke trail. There was no sound at all throughout this sighting, even though we could clearly see and hear airliners flying high above, as well as the other cruise ship in the distance. We could hear the distant thudding of the music from that vessel clearly and it was much closer to the lights at this point.

We asked a few other passengers about the lights and they where all equally as amazed and puzzled by them as the both of us. Once these five red lights had vanished, the flashing red light moved on about a mile along the horizon before stopping and restarting the whole procedure over again. Almost exactly like the first time they circled, started random bursts of low flying before disappearing for about ten seconds and shooting out of the flashing light, rapid fire fashion, one, two, three, four, five!

This happened three times to our knowledge, before I took my girlfriend below deck, as she was getting really spooked by this point. I returned less than a minute or two later to find all the lights had vanished including the white light. I waited a while longer but could see nothing except starlight, charter planes high above us and the cruise ship on the horizon. Whatever it was we saw that night had vanished and was unlike anything either of us have ever seen.

I would very much like to know what it was we saw out there on the Atlantic that night? I don't care if it was the testing of new rockets, flares or weather balloons! I really just want to hear, hopefully with your help, just what it was we saw both witnessed last Thursday night? I look forward to hearing from you soon with suggestions or updates. Yours faithfully, Peter H.
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Reported By: Roque C. & Timothy H. - Miami, Florida - January 5, 2001 at 18:08:15
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Miami Springs, Florida - Date: 01/05/01 - Time: 8:45 PM
Zip Code: 33166 - County: Dade County - Witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Other
Number of objects: 4 - Object had lights - Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object hovered
Object emitted beams of light - Other: See explanation below
Event Description:
Me and my friend T.C. were outside watching the moon with my new telescope, when from out of the blue, we saw this relatively bright, circular object hovering near the moon. Then, we saw another similar object appear nearby. The objects looked like the Millenium Falcon from Star wars (no joking)! We then proceeded to look at Venus and me and my brother kept noticing a large, very bright red object in the distance. It didn't move at all. We didn't think it was a star or planet since no star can be seen that bright. We disregarded the object and kept viewing the sky, then about ten minutes later, we saw the same bright red object moving across the sky, but at a slow speed. We discussed it for a few minutes and my friend came to a conclusion that it was probably just a fighter jet or helicopter. Then we looked again and it was gone!
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Reported By: A. H. - Jacksonville, Florida - January 1, 2001 at 09:18:25
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Jacksonville, Florida - Date: 12/23/00 - Time: 9:00 PM
Zip Code: 32259 - County sighting took place: St. Johns - Witnesses: 3 - Objects Shape: Other
Number of objects: 6-9 - Object had lights - Object had an Aura or Haze around it
Object emitted other objects - Object emitted beams of light - Event took place near A Military Airfield/Base
Event Description:
There were seven (7) luminous white lights with a faint fluorescent blue ring around them. They were 10 times the size of the brightest star. Six (6) smaller ones, moving extremely fast around a much larger one, which moved very slowly. We observed it for five (5) minutes, then it disappeared.
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Reported By: Norm and Brad P. - Brooker, FL - Zip Code: 32622 - 11/12/2000 at 12:23:26
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Brooker, FL - Date: July 4, 2000 - Time: 11:15 PM
County sighting took place: Bradford/Alachua - Witnesses: 5 - Objects Shape: Disk - Number of objects: 1
Object had lights - Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object emitted beams of light - Object hovered
Object made sound - There was interference associated with the object
Additional Information: CSX (railroad) bridge outside of town
Event Description:
My brother (Brad) and I were meeting a bunch of friends at a normal party spot outside of town. There were probably twenty or so people there when we got there. As soon as we arrived, five of us decided to cross the river on the railroad bridge. (By the way neither me or my brother had consumed any alcohol or drugs.) We walked down the railroad tracks about a quarter of a mile. We came up on a field to the right. We saw a fog hanging over the field, nothing new in our area. Then Mike, a friend, just said "Airplane" and we looked up to see a light in the sky. It went in a straight line the first time I looked. I looked down and then heard Brad say "Whoa!" When I looked up the light had come to dead stop in the air.

The light seemed to pulsate and then headed back in the opposite direction. It then started to zig zag. This thing couldn't have been a plane. It defied all normal laws of gravity. We ran back to get some of the others. We couldn't see anything from where the group was so we got a few to go back with us but we saw nothing. All we got was harassment from the others. Definitely not of this world.
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Reported By: Eli - Fort Lauderdale, FL - November 4, 2000 at 09:14:04
Subject: See explanation below - Location: Fort Lauderdale - Date: 10-31-200 - Zip Code: 33334
County: Broward County - Witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Other - Number of objects: 1
Event Description:
This wasn't an object, it was an unidentified light though. It was Halloween night. I looked up into the sky and for a split instant saw a shaft of light, which I think was some kind of narrow spray of electrons but that's just a theory. It wasn't very impressive, it was dim, milky, didn't change colors or directions, it was just a milky shaft of white light.

I am very well educated in current scientific research, and haven't heard of anything that would explain what I saw (except for paranormal and supernatural reasons, of course). It wasn't auroral because I live closer to Cuba than my own state capital and thus couldn't be much farther from the auroral latitudes, it sort of reminded me of those videos of sprites and flares that shoot up from clouds. Except, sprites and flares shoot up from clouds and not across the sky and no one on the ground can see them, and there wasn't a cloud near it.

I don't know what it was and I'm an expert on the extra-mundane. I will entertain any theories, but only if they fit with what I saw. I have many of my own, too many to even put my finger on one that fits best and I usually pick a theory that I think fits best (while keeping in mind that there are NO certainties in this universe).

I'm only posting this because I have a general interest in the strange and unusual. I want to contribute to the volume of knowledge on the subject, if by no other means than by adding yet one more sighting to the millions and millions every year. The Truth isn't Out There, It's Here, We Just Have to Accept It. Believe what you want, but accept that hundreds of millions of people can't be wrong, the UFO phenomenon exists (in fact, I'd venture to guess that UFOs are more common than meteor showers).
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Reported By: Fred R. - Jensen Beach, Florida - July 20, 2000 at 11:13 PM
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Jensen Beach, Florida
Date: 07/23/00 - Time: 15:20:58 PM (click image to see full size)
Zip Code: 34958 - Additional Information: http://www.countyjournal.com
Witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Disk - Number of objects: 1 - Object had an Aura or Haze around it
Event Description:
See Photo: http://www.countyjournal.com
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Reported By: Micah M. - Perido Key, FL - July 27, 2000 at 4:49 PM
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Perido Key, FL - Date: 7/26/00 - Time: 11:00 PM
Additional Info: On the beach - Witnesses: 7 - Objects Shape: Other - Number of objects: 6 - Object had lights
Event Description:
Last night me and my family were at our condo at the beach on the top porch and we have witnesses of the UFOs that were below us on there porch. We saw that there were bright red lights popping up and all the sudden they would go out. It was not a plane or a boat because these dots were to the left and to the right shooting across the sky. It was the first encounter with a UFO I have ever had. I know a lot of people think that I am probably full of it, but I'm not.
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Reported by: Name not given - Panama City Beach, Florida - July 2, 2000 at 7:55 PM
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Panama City Beach, Florida - Date: 06/30/00 - Time: 9:10 PM
Zip Code: 32405 - Witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Circle - Number of objects: 20 - Lights: Object had lights
Object had an Aura or Haze around it - The event took place near a Military Airfield or Base.
Event Description:
On June 30, 2000, at 9:10 PM Central time, my son and I witnessed the following. The conditions at the time were clear below 12,000 ft, 81 degrees, barometric pressure was 29.98R. Looking south from the back yard of a private residence near the beach, we spotted a formation of flying objects. There were about 20 colored, solidly lit, circular shaped objects, with hazily defined edges, silently moving Eastward in a "V" formation. The V was not in a perfectly straight line. The formation was not a plane. The objects did not move like birds.

When our view became obscured by a tree, by the time we shifted our viewpoint to get a clean line of site on the formation was gone from the sky. It is difficult to estimate the size and altitude of the objects. It is my guess that the altitude was a few thousand feet, and that the objects were each about 10 times the size that stars appear in the sky.
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Reported by: Tony J. - Port ST. Lucie FL - Wednesday, May 17, 2000 - 11:14 PM EST
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: PORT ST. LUCIE FL - Date: 5/17/00 - Time: 10:15 PM - Zip Code: 34953 - Additional Information: BECKER RD & FLORIDA TURNPIKE
Number of witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Other - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object hovered
Event Description:
Witnessed a stationary brightly lighted red, green and white lights, however, not consistent with port/starboard lights. Appeared to have disappeared quickly. Did not appear to be a helicopter and made no noise.
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Reported by: Marco A. - Winter Haven, FL. - May 3, 2000 - 1:38 PM EST
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Winter Haven, FL. - Date: 3-n/a-00 - Time: 8:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Event Zip Code: 33884 - Additional Information: Winter Haven is the town where Cypress Gardens is.
County sighting took place: Polk - Number of witnesses: 2 - Objects Shape: Light - Number of objects: 1-5
Object had an Aura or Haze around it - Object hovered - Other: See explanation below
Event Description:
My friend and I were driving around one night. I was sitting in the passenger seat. All of a sudden I noticed out my window a bright, orange light. The location of the primary sighting was near the theme park of Cypress Gardens. The town itself is about fifty minutes south of Orlando. I had noticed this light that was in the sky behind the local Winn-Dixie (which is a grocery store).

My friend and I observed the "light" performing strange maneuvers in the sky. At first, I saw only one bright, orange light. Then other objects, or "lights," started appearing around it that were the same color. They just appeared in the vicinity of the central "light." The "lights" would be moving very slowly in various directions, but never too far from the central "light." Sometimes the objects would be hovering next to each other then suddenly vanish, only to reappear on the other side of the object they had previously been next to. Other "lights" would disappear from their present position and then suddenly reappear at a different point, either higher or lower, of their previous one. They never moved fast, their maneuvers were also done very slowly. And the relative closeness that they sometimes acquired ruled out the possibility of any type of aircraft, such as helicopters, which could not have performed as close, or the type of maneuvers like these objects sometimes did.

We watched this spectacle for quite awhile. I finally convinced my friend to take me to my house to get my video camera. We arrived at my house and the "lights" were still very visible from my front yard, which is where I recorded roughly about twenty-five seconds of three separate, orange lights in the sky before my battery had died due to lack of charge.

At around this time, the lights had completely disappeared. They didn't zip away in high speed, they simply dimmed, then vanished from view. Not knowing if they were going to show up again, we left for Walmart. We had been in Walmart for a period of about ten to fifteen minutes and upon walking back to the car, were able to clearly spot the same lights we had seen before in the parking lot. We then rushed to my friend's house to get his camera. All the while the "lights" were still visible on the way to his house. We get to his house only to find that HIS battery is dead also. We anxiously charged both our batteries then returned to a spot where the lights had been. To our dismay, we never saw them again that night. We waited for about an hour before returning home.

My only regret is my lack of battery power. If I was able to record the entire events of what these "lights" or "objects" had performed, I'm convinced it would've proven to be a very worthy piece of study and consequently, very unexplainable indeed.
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Reported by: Edward R. - Orlando, FL - March 25, 2000 - 12:52 AM EST
Subject: UFO Sighting - Location: Orlando, Florida - Date: 2/24/00 - Time: 3:00 am - Zip Code: 32855
Additional Information: Very near to Universal Studios - County sighting took place: Orange
Number of witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Triangle - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights
There were High Voltage Power Lines in the area - There is a Public Airfield in the area
Event Description:
I was leaving my job at around 3 am. I work a second shift. As I approached my vehicle I noticed an arrangement of lights in the distance. They were in a Triangular form and heading in my direction.

I assumed it was a regular aircraft because of the close proximity of the Orlando area airport. Something was very different with this "aircraft" though that made me continue to stare at it as it passed overhead. Usually, aircraft lights flash. This aircraft had a light at the nose and lights at either wing tip that were steady bright white. No strobes were visible at all. Also, because it was 3 o'clock in the morning, there is no traffic noise to hide a jets noise. This craft was absolutely silent for something as large and close as this thing was.

I also could no make out a shape against the night sky. It was as if it were painted black. I assume it was Triangular, because of its lights. One at each corner. I appeared to be very close to the ground, because of how far apart the lights were. I stared at this for what seemed forever because of its slow cruising speed. It just seemed to float by. Like I said, it didn't make noise which is what really had me riveted. I was trying so hard to hear something! But nothing. As I watched it finally disappeared over the distant trees I thought to myself, "NAH! It couldn't be." But I can't help but keep thinking about it. What could it have been? Is what I saw a typical aircraft? I've never seen that before and I've always lived near airports all my life. I've had lit up blimps scare the c- - - out of me sometimes as the glow in the distance, but this was different. I only wish I could have been able to make it out better.
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Reported by: Robert V - Pensacola, FL - January 6, 2000 - 8:33 PM EST
Subject: UFO Sighting - Event Location: Phillips Inlet, Florida - Event Date: 11/ 73 - Time of event: 3:00 a.m.
Additional Info: Between Panama City Beach and Destin - County: Bay County, FL. Witnesses: 2
Objects Shape: Oval - Number of objects: 1 - Object had lights - Object emitted beams of light
Event Description:
In the fall of 1973, my wife and I were returning from seeing a film (The Sting) in Panama City, Florida. At that time, there was very little, if any development along HWY. 98. We were the only car on the road at the time. It was about 2:45 to 3:00 AM. There was a low overcast and the night was very dark.

We were traveling west towards Santa Rosa Beach where we owned a cabin. I was driving a gold, 1968 Plymouth Barracuda. My wife was asleep with her head in my lap. All that I am about to relate occurred in just a few seconds.

As we drove along the deserted highway, I noticed that the hood of the car seemed to be reflecting light from the sky..... at first, I figured that the clouds were breaking and that the moon was beginning to shine through when I realized that the light wasn't white but was rather a pale, radium green (I know..... it sounds nuts......just wait, it gets lots worse)......... looking up, I watched in disbelief as the clouds boiled above us and rapidly grew increasingly brighter.

As I began to brake the car and yell for my wife to look, the clouds suddenly opened up and a brilliant, almost blindingly bright green light shone down..... out of the opening a bright green oval came at such a tremendous speed that it left a streak as an after image on my retina....... around the oval was a wedding band like ring of orange that rotated around the oval and which, although bright, seemed to give off no light.

The thing approached the ground and we thought it would impact about 300 yards in front of us. Instead, just before striking the highway it made an obtuse turn, went over the dunes and struck the water about 1 mile offshore... then traveled under water to the horizon where it's light suddenly "blipped" out. It made a huge pressure wave as it traveled under the gulf water and continued to glow green all the way to the horizon..... the orange band was not apparent when it was beneath the water. It also hesitated and pulsed briefly before moving off under water.

I have related this story many times to friends and have always been met with skepticism and disbelief...... who can blame them? Anyway, that is my true story of my only UFO encounter. I am university educated, having a BFA from the U of AL and an MFA from FSU..... I have taught school for 26 years and am also a professional potter who specializes in architectural ceramics..... I am not a wacko and really did see what I have accurately related here..... Scared both of us witless......... thanks

Robert sent us the following information the day after he submitted the above report:
First, the object itself seemed to be about 30 or 40 feet in length, though it was difficult to tell because of its speed. It was not a disk shape but a true ellipse or oval, round in cross-section. Secondly, there was no apparent noise at all. Third, when the object struck, it made a huge plume of water where it hit the surface (as can be imagined)...... Finally, after the object reached the horizon and the light went out, my wife and I could still see what appeared to be a rent or torn opening in the low overcast of clouds above us. I neglected to include these points last night because I was so tired. I had been working since 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning and frankly, I was "whipped".
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Reported By: Scott D - Location: St. Augustine, Florida
Subject: UFO Sighting - Sighting Location: St. Augustine, Florida - Time: apx. 4 am - Date: 08/17/96
Sighting occured while on the beach - Witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Triangle - Number of objects: 1
The object left a vapor trail - The object emitted other objects - The object made sound
There was electrical interference associated with the object
Description Of the event:
It was 4am, and I was on guard duty at a condo on the beach. I looked up searching the night sky, I avidly believe in the existence of extraterrestrials and my instincts were telling me that this was the night. My alertness was in a heightened state and I noticed an object way off into space move from one point to another because I saw the propulsion signature. I also noted in a more heartfelt sense that this occurrence was very strange. Like when you're sleeping in bed and a spider crawls in front of you in an instant. At this point I decided to take a break and get a pack of cigarettes at the store a quarter mile away. I still had an eerie feeling and noticed that it was so quite I could literally hear my heart beat. I traveled back to my post and sat on the hood of my car listening to Larry King Live on am radio. I began to meditate continually thinking of a geometric 3-D object moving in a universally dynamic manner. In an effort to communicate telepathically because at this time I was certain that a tremendous event with an alien was about to happen.

I proceeded to walk around the building when I was facing the large parking lot with my back to the sea. I could see to the left an object approaching in a trajectory directly over the lot through the haze of the night. A feeling inside me was hoping that it was just a group of pelicans until I saw the ship breaking through the night at a speed of around 35 mph and a height of approx. 5 stories high and approx. 75 feet from my view. My memory of what follows is clouded by it's uncertain perfection. I can only describe certain things about the ship. The first thing I noticed was that it looked like any aircraft only many, many times more sophisticated. The cockpit area was entirely black like some kind of radiation absorbing material like carbon. The fuselage was similar to most aircraft only more perfect in shape.

The wings were a combined delta shape and pyramidal structure also perfect. It was now to the right of me when I noticed the engine. I noticed two large engines and two smaller ports which were located beneath the wing structure. My mind was racing and possibly communicating telepathically with the ship when I started getting angry because it was leaving I thought, "I wish I had a rocket launcher so I could prove I discovered this.", when a flash of rationale told me "go ahead". This must have upset me because I made the motion to launch a missile. At exactly that instant a tremendous blast of a controlled nature came out of the two large engine ports. The ship began to ascend at an incredible rate of velocity. I determined it to move in a curve toward outer space at a rate near the speed of light because the engines were visible at a great distance from Earth in less than 30 seconds. The rest of my story is amazing and I feel I have become a greater human being for the experience.
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Reported by: Marie - St. Cloud, Florida - November 16, 1999 - 11:36 PM
Subject1: UFO Sighting - Event Location: St. Cloud, FL - Event Date: 11/16/99. - Time: 10:30 PM
Additional Info: 35 min from Orlando - Number of witnesses: 1 - Objects Shape: Other - Number of objects: 2
Object had lights/Emitted beams of light/Object changed colors/Object hovered/There were aircraft in the area
Event Description:
I was outside as my horses where highly upset. When I looked over to my right and there it was going back and forth kinda like a ball thrown from one person to another...GOD THIS SOUNDS NUTS!!!

Anyway, I ran in the house and got my Digital Video cam.. and went running back outside.. and at that time it was just sitting behind some trees and then a 2nd smaller one shot away from the larger one and then the larger one starting moving around slowly then boom, it shot off like a rabbit with it's tail on fire. I have never seen any thing like it... then it stopped and hovered THERE WERE NO SOUNDS!!!! Then it headed towards Orlando like lightning .. towards the airport. There where other planes flying, but I do not know if they saw it or not. God, I am almost 30 and this sounds like I am crazy ,,, no I do not drink or do drugs and I have the video of it
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