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Jacksonville, FL
Florida · Duval County · Jacksonville Metro
Jacksonville is a major city in Florida with a population of 961,739. Residents earn $66,981 per year, which is 11% below the national average.
3.2
/5.0
B
Good
961,739
Population
1,287/sq mi density
$66,981
Median Income
$37,269 per capita
$266,100
Home Value
$282,367 Zillow
$1,375
Median Rent
32.2% income on rent
71°F
Avg Temperature
321 sunny days/yr
647
Violent Crime/100K
3,309 property/100K
B
Overall
3.2 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B+
Economy
3.9 / 5.0
$66,981 median income, 2.9% unemployment
A
Affordability
4.4 / 5.0
$266,100 home value, $1,375/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
647 violent crimes/100K (70% above avg)
B+
Education
3.5 / 5.0
31.8% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
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Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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4
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UFO Sightings Near Jacksonville, FL
136 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Jacksonville, FL.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | Strange Row of Lights Over Jacksonville, Fl. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | Round orange extremley fast moving and silent. Traveling west. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | Hovering triangular craft with search lights. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | Black oval craft flying below cloud line making no sounds, displaying no lights & travelling at high velocity. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | ~8 bright orange, almost as if on fire floating orbs coming in off the ocean then disappearing. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2014 | Bright disc spotted over east Jacksonville near 295, with aircrafts following. |
| Jacksonvile, FL | 2013 | Saw a bright orange object that turned purple and flew away on the 4th of July |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Oval shaped craft with blunt ends no lights, completely black. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | At night I look up at the sky to admire the stars if I am walking home from work at night. This night in particular I was walking from |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | UFO sighting in Jacksonville, FL |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Some type of rocket launch. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | I'm only reporting this because now it happened a second night in a row and my husband saw it this time too and the helicopters and pla |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Reddish-yellow elongated diamond star-sized lights moving in elongated V formation against night sky that gradually disappeared. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Three lights were coming together and then the left and right vanished. middle light stayed a moment before vanishing too. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | A flash of light that went into a cresent shape before disappearing was seen heading south bound @10:03 pm approx 20 seconds later the |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Large gray triangular aircraft following florida air gaurd jet. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | I could not have described what me, my husband and daughter witnessed than the description that was posted by someone in St. Cloud, Flo |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | 5 possible meteors traveling in single file. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | The 1st sighting was in July 2013 - and this 3rd sighting was 11-25-13 |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Jacksonville, Fla spots red/yellow glow in night sky with changing, slower velocity and then going black |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2013 | Bright red flashing moving slow from NNW to the SSE |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2012 | Disc shaped saucer seen inside a glowing orange ball of light in Jacksonville, florida. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2012 | We were going to our friends house when we noticed the UFO and stopped to look at it just hovering. It was in broad daylight and all wo |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2012 | Fast moving object w/ a bauitiful orange aura that seemed to pulsate travaling at high rate of speed. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2012 | Fluorescent green streak in jacksonville sky |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2012 | Numerous (I5-20) solid red-orange flare-like lights over Jacksonville in about a 2 minute period. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | Bright green small object traveling North to South. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | A friend and I were driving home from work late one early morning in mid-august and were stuck at a red light that doesn't normally cha |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | A light hovered in the sky two nights, moving back and forth. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | We were outside i step to the side by myself to look at the stars and i seen a triangular shaped object with bright white lights... ive |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | Ball of orange light shot into outer space and came back |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | Bright meteor-like object falling from upper left sky to lower right quickly changed directions and disappeared over the horizon |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | Comet-like UFO. Major air surveilance at time of sighting. Two seperate crafts sighted. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | FIVE ORANGE, PURPLE, AND COBALT AND WHITE BALLS OF LIGHT FLASHED ACROSS NIGHT SKY. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | Orange Lights in the Jacksonville Sky |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | My wife, daughter, and I witness a bright object moving North-North-East in the sky. It was a bluish-white colored light and stayed vis |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2011 | A meteor like object falling from the sky with a smoke trail that stops instantly and appears to be a green light hovering then gone. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2010 | 2 orange balls traveling over Jacksonville Florida |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2010 | Triangle over the St John's River |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2010 | SILENT TRIANGLE SPARKLING LIGHTS INVISBLE CENTER. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2009 | two lights flashing in unison very odd to see. very high in sky, in between horizon and directly over head. they flashed and moved off |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2009 | Object moving above cloud line in Jacksonville, FL Oct 2, 2009 at 10:30 am |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2009 | Formation of 9 orange lights |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | Blueish/Green Flash around 2 am over Jacksonville |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | Large, silent, triangles in Jacksonville, FL |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | i'm 26 and havn't graduated college yet or don't really care too since all that stuff started happening. i went to a prestigious ar |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | SILENT LARGE HOOVERING PLANE |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | Two lights moving at very fast speed across sky in Jacksonville Florida during Lunar Eclipse. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | My friend and I looked at each other and said, “What just happened?” |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | Bright fireball looked like a second sun hid behind cloud never came in front of it,it wasyellow/orange |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | Oval or round shaped object passed by during lunar eclipse, emitted neon blue light. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | 3 dimensional diamont craft ,in front yard,quarter mile from University of jacksonville FL. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | UFO seen over St Johns River |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2008 | It was a hugh bright bluish-greenish object traveling the tree line from east to west. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | half mile from de saint Jhons River, low flying sphere, at slow speed without noise |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | The triangle strikes again |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | A triangle with bright white lights at each point and red flickering light in the middle. Lasted about 40min. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | Bright light streaks across the sky |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | While driving west on a major highway,JTB, just a few miles from the beach, a green fireball wisked by really fast, going W-SW. It wa |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | Bright blue orb with a tail |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | Object entering southeastern Florida atmosphere at high velocity- NOT SPACE SHUTTLE |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | conformation by another |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | NAS plane with bright red and blue lights around it followed by a bright white ball of light. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2007 | Falling green object north of Jacksonville |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2006 | GLOWING GREEN SPHERE STREAKING ACROSS THE SKY |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2006 | it was a very bright light in the eastern sky, it was a full moon with clear skys it was parial to the moon.this object was of triangu |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2006 | IN A CLOUDLESS SKY BEFORE SUNRISE I BRIEFLY OBSERVED A VERY HIGH, WHITE STAR SHAPED OBJECT, MOVING EAST TO WEST. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2006 | I was outside after coming back from a dance. It was between 2:45am and 3:00am. I was outside because it was said that Mercury, Mars, |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | These are accounts of several personal UFO and 'other' experiences. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | Witnessed saucer from afar glowind with white lights, constantly diming and disapearing ever so often. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | at first i thought that they were aircraft but they weren't as high or low as the airplanes and helicopters were. They seem to just lin |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT). PD)) White light, moving slowly that suddenly expands |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | Eight silvery relflective objects. Six stationary and two moving near the others. All faded from view in 7 minutes. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | Dark triangle shape with v-shaped lights over the St Johns River. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | I was flying at 45 thousand feet in a Lear Jet when I sat back in the seat and looked up into the sky and saw a bright star like object |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | solid triangular formation of white lights, probably birds |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2005 | small object thought of as a star started moving, changed direction then faded away |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2004 | very low hovering black rectangular object on a sunny day |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2004 | Two round unsusal objects spotted a very high altitude - video tape confirms not to be airplane |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2004 | silent nested silver aircraft, unattached chevron formation |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2004 | Large bright oval object traveling 4 times faster than a jet. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2004 | oval shape bright as a full moon |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | When picking up the daily paper, I waslooking for MARS and while seeing a bright flickering star a "ship" of some kind passed slowly by |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | light flew over florida and makes u turn back south |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | Shape shift from triangle to 1/2 circle then to 2 ovals hten fade. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | 1 WAS SITTING ON AN OCEANFRONT BALCONY LOOKING AT THE VAPOR TRAILS OF PASSENGER JETS ARRIVING FROM EUROPE. OVER A 45 MIN. TIME SPAN AT |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | The objects appeared in the photo, after I "took away" the darkness of the sky. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | Green object with tail headed from the sky straight down |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | It appeared to be a very bright and large shooting star falling downwards with a trail |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2003 | Triangular formation of lights observed in a telescope, moving from west to east. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | Object appeared as a slow moving shooting star, that performed an "S" manuver before vanishing from sight |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | Objects were moving eraticly I'm not sure what I saw. Hopefully weather balloons |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | Cluster of lights passing overhead at high speed simultaneously changing configuration |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | Bright red light in the sky turns into U.F.O. with circular shape and rotating lights. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | A FIREBALL SIGHTING FROM THE SKY LOOKED LIKE A UFO |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | ((HOAX??)) One april day i saw a Ufo and it has changed my life. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | It was a UFO |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2002 | I observed an object with a peculiar flight path and unusual lighting characteristics. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2001 | I was driving down i-95 south and just over the trees on the right I saw a triangle UFO with one light up top a few on the bottom and a |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2001 | A nighttime triangle type craft. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | Three lighted objects, with strobing red, green and yellow lights, remained stationary for about 20 minutes before moving to the west. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | Triangle shaped craft hovering about 70ft at old kings and baymeadows-quiet hissing sound. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | A small white light moving through the night sky. (Not a sattelite!) |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | THEY WOKE ME UP, I am terrified and if the government IS involved I believe that reporting this puts my life in danger. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | Red light in the southern sky, low just above the tree line. Suspended in the same spot for over 10 minutes |
| Jacksonville, FL | 2000 | A rectangle shape object like a cigar box (maybe three times the size) touched down in my back yard. ((NUFORC Note: Hoax?? PD)) |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | unknown craft saw on flat bed trailer being escorted by highway patrol |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | driving west on I-10 drizzeling rain, low clouds, passing a well lited lot I noticed a small cloud reflecting the lots lights. behind t |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | unusual light |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | Lighted object observed strobing red, white & blue while completely stationary for apx. 20 mins. at altitude. Visual confirmation by AT |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | Gray Chevron maneuvers and hovers above NFL game |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | Observed an object strobing red, wht, & blu at altitude & distance, stationary for apx. 20 mins. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | I was lifeguarding at a local pool when i looked up to the sky because it was a pretty sunset when i saw somthing move from behind a la |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1999 | Delta wing shaped craft approx 60-70' in diameter/tip to tip hovered @ 11:00 for about 1 min. No sound. six round depression on undersi |
| Jacksonville (i-10 milemarker 238, heading e), FL | 1998 | Object was Metalic shinning silver saucer shaped with arch hanging down on the left and right side. Me and my wife observed for about |
| Jacksonville (i-10, 10 milemarker 235, heading e), FL | 1998 | Object was a saucer shaped cloud glowing white heading north to south about 700 feet up. |
| Jacksonville (interstate 10, heading e), FL | 1998 | Diamond Shape Object Glowing incadescent Yellowish, The object was to our front right hovering just slightly below cloud level. It was |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1998 | Completely Silent Small UFO with Spotlight Illuminated my bedroom durring early morning. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1997 | Metallic Sphere Scans My Entire Body |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1996 | Two fishermen witness very bright obj. pass overhead from SW to NE. Covered 90 deg. of arc in 30 sec., they thought. (Satellite?) |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1996 | Man standing outside house witnesses "star" moving W to E in N sky. "Star" suddenly "turns 90 deg., goes straight up out of sight. |
| Jacksonville (in mandarin), FL | 1995 | Triangualar shaped object hovering in place.VERY close to the road,and this was a busy highway with people in front and behind.At night |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1995 | Man and wife observe three strange lights over Jacksonville that fly to southeast and fade out suddenly. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1995 | Woman reports bright, "neon-like" light, which moved, got brighter, ascended vertically very fast. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1993 | The translucent blue round sphere moved from horizon to horizon in 1 to 2 seconds with NO sound! |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1992 | An very similar sighting to the one reported over Phoenix this year happened over Jacksonville in 1992. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1988 | I saw object but my family did not even though they were with me. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1983 | Saw a triangle shaped object traverse sky on very clear night |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1981 | round metallic object with three white lights hovering at tree top level made no noise left at high rate of speed |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1976 | Rotating Saucer Shaped Object with Multicolored Lights Flying Over Jacksonville |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1975 | WHILE WALKING ON ATLANTIC BOULEVARD IN JACKSONVILLE I WITNESSED A BOOMERANG SHAPED OBJECT ALMOST COLLIDE WITH A COMMERCIAL AIRLINER |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1974 | taking a picture of night blooming cereus cactus at 9pm. craft came from north over ranche style house. lots were one quarter acre. hov |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1968 | Lost three hours of time--and didn't think it strange. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1966 | It was between 3 and 5 am in my backyard when i went to let dog out. I was staring at the constellation Cassiopeia and then turned my a |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1965 | Bright light makes 90 degree turn. |
| Jacksonville, FL | 1952 | extremely fast triangle shape object with one light on rear comes to a sudden stop, then seems to shoot out of sight |