NUFORC UFO Sighting 181521
Occurred: 2024-05-17 20:30 Local
Reported: 2024-05-17 19:06 Pacific
Duration: 4 min
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA
Location details: Walking northeast along Lake Francis Dr toward the address above

Shape: Fireball
Color: Orange, then white
Estimated Size: Rocket size?
Viewed From: Land
Direction from Viewer: Went from NNE to ENE?
Angle of Elevation: 45
Closest Distance: 1-10 miles?
Estimated Speed: 200-500 mph ?
Explanation: Rocket - Probable
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object, Left a trail, Emitted other objects, Changed Colo

Orange contrail, disappeared; reappeared white; huge translucent teardrop, then 2-3 small lights detached, traveling within the firebal

Enjoying sunset colors in clouds and occasional lightning flashes within the thunderheads. Bright orange contrail traveling north-south? at steady pace, parallel to the horizon, 45 degrees? above horizon in a cloudless section of sky. I assumed it was a rocket.

Then it disappeared. Then it reappeared as white contrail.

Then it developed/blossomed into a huge white/translucent fireball-shaped head. Then we thought we were seeing something remarkable. Tried to video on cellphone but it doesn’t capture it. The sense of the relatively small light pushing through the sky, and the sense of the boundary of light within the teardrop shape it created was marvelous.

Then 2-3 (we disagree) bright smaller lights detached from the initial light, and travelled below and slightly behind the initial light, within the translucent envelope (fireball/horizontal teardrop). Beautiful. No sound, no change of pace.
Then it dropped below the tree line. We lost sight of it.

The contrail that remained in the sky developed several distinct threads that swooped in a curve, southward, together. Quite different from the rest of the contrail which became fuzzy.




Posted 2024-05-24

NUFORC UFO Sighting 175019
Occurred: 2023-03-15 19:25 Local
Reported: 2023-03-16 07:02 Pacific
Duration: 2 min
No of observers: 1

Location: Lake Placid, NY, USA
Location details: Rt 73

Shape: Other
Explanation: Starlink - Possible
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object, Changed Color, Aircraft nearby

3 lights in a straight line formation.

Looked up noticed 3 lights in a staight line formation assumed it was a plane as its in the landing path for airport they went out of view due to tree cover. Drove down road a half mile noticed lights appeared again going on then off left to right and as last of 3 lights went out the sky was completely empty nothing there it was a clear blue evening sky so I was expecting to see some sort of object but there was nothing. I live within 4 miles of sighting about 2 hrs later I saw two fighter jets fly over in the night sky while I was outside with my dog.

Posted 2023-04-09

NUFORC UFO Sighting 156500
Occurred: 2020-05-17 05:00 Local
Reported: 2020-05-17 08:26 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light


More than 75 lights moving high up in the sky for more than 10 minutes from the southwest to the northeast.

Starting around 5:00 am on Sunday 17th, After my morning run, I was looking up in the sky and saw lights moving from the southwest to the northeast extremely high in the sky, 4 to 5 times the altitude that an airplane would be flying. This lasted for 10 to 12 minutes. There was no pattern to the line of lights that came across the sky. Sometimes they would be several in a close line, sometime side by side or even two along side each other with one trailing. Some time they were spaced evenly and other times groups of 3 to 5 would be crossing. Nothing was flashing, and speeds were generally the same as they crossed. At one point there were 2 side by side with 2 trailing close, then one of the trailing lights made an abrupt right turn and leaded away. I went inside and woke my wife to see this. Once back outside they continued for several more minutes. During this entire time, I saw at least 75 to 80 of these lights cross the sky. I counted that during one poin! t there were 16 within my view from the southwest to the northeast sky.



Posted 2020-06-25

NUFORC UFO Sighting 146206
Occurred: 2019-05-16 22:00 Local
Reported: 2019-05-18 13:34 Pacific
Duration: 10 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Disk
Characteristics: Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

2 Large spinning red orange discs and dozens of star sized craft,

My boyfriend and I were having drinks and listening to music on my lanai when he heard a jet turning around really fast and he said “there is something going on up there” so we ran outside and looked up and saw dozens of star sized bright objects shooting all over the sky and making impossible maneuvers. Then a huge orange red long object came spinning at us vertically with other small orange red objects shooting out of it. Very beautiful. It disappeared and then another one, a little bigger came and did the same thing. Awesome.



Posted 2019-06-07

NUFORC UFO Sighting 143123
Occurred: 2018-09-06 22:00 Local
Reported: 2018-09-16 07:53 Pacific
Duration: 2 hours
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Other
Characteristics: Lights on object

Dozens of bright lights shooting all over sky, Plus 2 Very Large craft flying directly at us.

My boyfriend and I took the pontoon boat out on the lake to enjoy the sunset, as we often do.

It was a fabulous sunset and we stayed to watch all the beautiful after glow. The stars started coming out and the sky cleared. We were picking out constellations when I saw a star shoot across the sky. Then I saw another one. My boyfriend started seeing stars shooting all over the sky. He recalls seeing 30 to 40 of them at a time. I remember seeing 10 or 12 at a time. We were amazed and thrilled at the sight. I was so happy because, even though I have spent hundreds of nights sleeping out under the open sky, I had never seen a UFO. We could hear, but not see one lone jet flying round the area.

Then, about 1000 feet of the stern of the boat, we saw looked like a huge (300' across?) plane shaped object bearing down on us about 100 feet off the water. It had very bright yellow orange lights. A big one in the center and decreasingly smaller lights going out the ends of the object. It was speeding and descending directly at us. Totally silent. My boyfriend got a very short video but it is not very good. I can't believe that I was laughing! But it is on the video. Then it just disappeared into thin air. Poof! It was gone. It seems strange, but neither one of us seemed to be frightened at all. It was all just so awesome and thrilling.

We decided to stay out and keep star gazing. About 15 minutes passed then an object just like the first one, but about twice as large, started to bare down on us. Same as the first but more lights. It too just disappeared. We stayed out another half hour, then decided to go home. I hesitate to tell the following, because it makes my account seem unbelievable, but I want to report it all.

As we were stepping of the pontoon boat, from my boyfriends phone in his pocket we heard a computerized female voice saying random numbers and letters. Something like: M R 5 V 8 M K 3 Y R B 2. The phone had not rung. And there is no record of it on his phone.

We went home and went to sleep like nothing had happened.

The next morning I couldn't stop thinking about it, and I thought it was very odd that I wasn't freaking out. It was like I had seen a fabulous movie or gone on really wild carnival ride. I didn't take my shower till noon because I had yard work to do in the morning. When I went to blow dry my hair, I looked at my eyes in the mirror and I saw terror looking back at me. And that freaked me out. I am thinking that my conscious mind is protecting me from going crazy. But my subconscious knows.

Days passed and the thought occurred to me that those huge objects created no waves on our shallow lake. Normally even a small fishing boat will far away will create waves. I'm thinking that those objects were holograms. My boyfriend thinks that they were real because hovercrafts don't make a wake. I just don't know.

I'll try to figure out how to send you the video from my boyfriends phone.

Posted 2018-09-27

NUFORC UFO Sighting 119427
Occurred: 2015-06-08 21:30 Local
Reported: 2015-06-08 21:41 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Triangle
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aura or haze around object

Two sets of orange lights in a triangular pattern, no sound, no movement, slowly pulsing.

9:30 pm, partly cloudy. Three bright orange lights in a triangular pattern. Unknown height in sky, estimate of 1-2 miles up. Slightly dimmer set of 3 lights in a triangular pattern near the first set of lights. First set was clearly visible as a triangle.

The second set was positioned at a lower angle so that it seemed like three lights in a row. When the first set would dim, the other set would brighten.

Clearly hovering, clouds below lights had an orange hue. Both sets visible for approx 30 minutes. The brightest set was first to vanish, then the second set.

No sound, no movement, very slow pulsing of brightness that seemed to go from one set to the other. Second set not nearly as bright.

Posted 2015-06-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 111650
Occurred: 2014-07-13 01:00 Local
Reported: 2014-07-18 11:36 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 0

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Formation
Characteristics: Lights on object

On a clear night, observed unusual disc like object flying around my home in a circular formation. Unable to identify them since there

On a clear night, observed unusual "disc" like objects flying around my home in a circular formation.

Unable to identify them since there was no sound, yet they were close enough to be seen as a possible UFO.

Suddenly their trajectory changed drastically, while they disappeared like lighting!

Posted 2014-07-20

NUFORC UFO Sighting 102998
Occurred: 2013-10-06 21:00 Local
Reported: 2013-10-05 21:35 Pacific
Duration: <1 second
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Unknown
Characteristics: Lights on object, Changed Colo

Damn I wish I had been reording the sky.

Just for a second ..... East to west ... We saw a UFO going over our shoulder .... Had yellow light And then went to blue and it was gone..... In less than what seemed like a second May have been 3 seconds .... But it went by so quick ALSO NO SOUND NONE ZERO NOTHING FOR SOUND wish I recorded it somehow

Posted 2013-10-14

NUFORC UFO Sighting 97644
Occurred: 2013-05-08 20:50 Local
Reported: 2013-05-08 18:34 Pacific
Duration: 5 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Emitted other objects, Aircraft nearby

Two amber lights that extinguished and then pairs of tiny silver lights moving away rapidly.

We were sitting in the backyard looking North by Northwest over the house. We saw two amber lights appear over the roof – one, then the other. Each amber light “burned out” and suddenly there were 6-8 tiny silver lights that then moved away quickly from the location of the amber lights.

They moved out in all different directions, but went in pairs. The pairs stayed relatively close together, but did not follow a specific formation. The tiny silver lights moved VERY quickly across the sky – much more quickly than conventional aircraft, and with no noise. The silver lights blinked rapidly. The lights moved out of our range of vision after approximately 5 minutes. We watched the pairs as long as we could. We did see 3 different airplanes in the sky and were able to judge the speed against the conventional crafts. It did not appear the airplanes were chasing the lights, however, one craft was near the path of one pair of the silver lights and seemed to be on a similar flight path.

Posted 2013-05-15

NUFORC UFO Sighting 43661
Occurred: 2005-04-16 22:00 Local
Reported: 2005-04-26 19:49 Pacific
Duration: 2 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object, Aircraft nearby

Fast Moving Light High up in Atmosphere

Looking at the stars, our friend pointed out 2 jets flying together. He said they are always there because of a practice bombing sight in Avalon. They were to the Northwest. They did look like planes to me.

But to the Northeast, I pointed out a light the size of a star, moving at extreme speed. It was really high up, and then we lost sight of it. The night was really clear, the stars were bright. No clouds. It was between 10:00 to 10:30 PM. For as high up as it was, moving like it was, it had to be going an unimaginable speed. Our friend said it could have been the space station. I'm not convinced that it was.

Posted 2005-05-11

NUFORC UFO Sighting 21631
Occurred: 2002-01-30 22:45 Local
Reported: 2002-02-01 08:35 Pacific
Duration: 30 seconds
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light


Bright object noted in sky, abruptly disappeared without a trace.

While flying at an altitude of about 4000' a bright light was noted bearing about 170 degrees and 20 degrees above the horizion from our position over Lake Placid, FL. The light appeared to be the color of sodium vapor street lights (orange). I pointed it out to my passenger and in obout 20-30 seconds it abruptly disappeard completely. It was not possible to determine the movement or distance from our position it could be.

A simular experience was noted by my neighbor the next night except there were four lighs and appeared to move in two pairs. These also abruptly disappeared but left random sparkling in the area.

Posted 2002-02-22

NUFORC UFO Sighting 26380
Occurred: 2001-08-15 22:00 Local - Approximate
Reported: 2002-12-02 08:20 Pacific
Duration: 15sec
No of observers: 9

Location: Lake Placid (near), NY, USA

Shape: Fireball
Characteristics: Lights on object, Left a trail, Changed Colo

i saw a streek of fire in the night sky

i was at a campground called fish creek ponds and itr was very dark and i looked up to see the stars and i saw a red burst of fire in the sky about 500feet up it wasnt that big the fire was red and it lasted for about 15seconds and other people said that they saw it too in diffrent locations it wasnt a star or a plane. a military base was in the area too



NUFORC Note:

Date is approximate. PD


Posted 2002-12-23

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3384
Occurred: 1998-03-24 21:50 Local
Reported: 1998-03-24 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 30 minutes
No of observers: 2

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Lights on object

Two bright lights that moved around in the sky.

My wife and I were driving north in separate vehicles on U.S. 27 about 15 miles south of Lake Placid, Fl. We saw through our windshields two bright, orange lights appear to the north east about 30 degrees above the horizon. The right light was higer than the left. They moved slightly to the left in unison and blinked out. We stopped our vehicles and the lights suddenly reappeared about 30 degrees to the left of their original location. Now the lights were closer together, more like two very bright auto headlights. Only they were yellowish orange. The color of sodium street lights. In fact that's what they reminded me of. We observed them in this position for several minutes then they began to dim then return to their original brightness. They went and reappared about a minute later about 30 degrees to the east. Then the left light slowly descended and went out. The other light remained in the sky for several minutes and then dimmed and went out. First observed at about 2150hrs. Last observed about 2215 hrs EST. Observed almost continuously for about one half hour. I worked at TRW for 11 years in their aerospace program. I have witnessed many launches from Cape Kennedy. These were not missles. They were very bright lights that moved independently, were as bright as flares and the same color. Most of the time they were stationary in the sky. They didn't move in unison but when they reappeared they would be together in the same part of the sky. Sometimes one would blink out before the other and then when they reappeared one would blink on before the other.

Posted 2002-03-19

NUFORC UFO Sighting 3348
Occurred: 1998-03-07 18:30 Local
Reported: 1998-03-15 00:00 Pacific
Duration: 3 minutes
No of observers: 3

Location: Lake Placid, FL, USA

Shape: Light
Characteristics: Aura or haze around object

Two round, yellow, hazy lights. Smaller than full moon. Came toward us from the east. Sky was clear. Light on left slightly lower altitude. Right light made circular move to the left in direction of left light. Then turned and rapidly gained altitude until it went out of sight. Left light acted independently. Maintained relative position to right light and followed it up out of sight. Witnessed by two ladies in the courtyard of Lake Blue Resort Condominiums in Lake Placid, FL and male firefighter in Ft. Myers FL All 3 have observed rocket launches from Cape many times. Definetely not a rocket..



NUFORC Note:

NUFORC: Missile launch.


Posted 2002-03-19