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 Stacy Brown was coming back from a night of fishing on the Ochlockonee River when he first caught glimpse of it — an orange glow emanating from behind the top of the pine trees. 
  
 It was a dark, winter night, with no moon visible from the john boat he and his brother-in-law had just loaded with catfish. He figured the trees were on fire as the two headed down a straightaway toward the boat landing. But then something burst through the tree tops on the left bank and into full view. 
  
 “The whole thing was like a huge fireball,” he said. “You could see the flames. When I first saw it, I thought it was a meteor — I thought it was coming down. But then it just went straight across the river and above the tree tops on the other side.” 
  
 Dozens of people have reported UFOs over North Florida since the 1970s. VPC 
  
 The object, about the size of a Volkswagen bug with a long tail behind it, passed above them as it slowly crossed the river, casting an eerie blue light inside the boat. It made no sound as it finally disappeared from sight. 
  
 Flummoxed but not frightened, Brown turned to his brother in law to ask what they’d just seen. “I don’t know” was all he said. Over the next 30-plus years, they’d never speak of it again. 
  
 But Brown could never quite shake the possible close encounter, which happened in the early 1980s near Sopchoppy. After all these years, he still has no idea what it was. 
  
 “I don’t really believe in little green men,” said Brown, a retired business owner from Crawfordville. “But it was odd. It was weird. It’s perplexed me. Maybe somebody can tell me what it was — that’s what I’m hoping.” 
  
 A witness recreation of reported UFOs seen Sept. 26, 2008, over Tallahassee. "I still can't get what I saw out of my head, nor can I wrap my brain around it," the witness said. 
  
 (Photo: MUFON) 
  
 Brown’s far from the only person to have seen something exotic — and perhaps otherworldly — in the skies over the Big Bend. In recent years, more than 50 people in Leon and surrounding counties have reported UFOs to the Mutual UFO Network, a nonprofit organization that tracks and investigates them. 
  
 The area sightings date from last month to the 1970s, according to the MUFON database, which includes witness accounts, photos, sketches and video of the mysterious but often explainable objects. 
  
 In September alone, MUFON got more than 58 reports of UFOs in Florida and 985 worldwide, said George Williams, a state section director who lives in Wakulla County. According to another organization tracking UFOs, the National UFO Reporting Center, some 5,385 sightings have been reported in Florida, second only to California in the nation. 
  
 The reports worldwide include everything from strange lights in the sky to alien abductions. Of the couple of dozen cases Williams has investigated around Florida, only five were found to be unknown objects. The others turned out to be airplanes, drones, sky lanterns, launches from Cape Canaveral and, in a couple of cases, hoaxes. 
  
 “We try to start eliminating,” said Williams, a retired investigator for the federal Bureau of Prisons. “Was it an airplane? Was it a satellite? There are a number of things it could possibly be, and if we eliminate all the possibilities, then we will characterize it as an actual unknown object.” 
  
 ‘Something ... not of this earth’ 
  
 Some cases are easier to explain than others. After someone flying into Tallahassee in August took a photo of what he or she thought was a UFO off the wing of the plane, Williams found out which flight it was, got publicly available schematics of the aircraft and determined the bright light was nothing more than a strobe on the wing. 
  
 A photo of a reported UFO over Tallahassee on June 13. "That thing flew so fast, we had never seen something like that," the witness said. 
  
 (Photo: MUFON) 
  
 But MUFON couldn’t figure out what in the world happened to Charles Ellison, a retired Navy aviation storekeeper who claims to have nearly crashed into a UFO in 2012 while driving late at night on Interstate 10 near Pensacola. 
  
 Ellison was going about 75 mph in his Ford pickup when he decided to pass two 18-wheelers he’d been following. As he moved into the left lane, a bright light behind some kind of object appeared in front of him. He slammed on his brakes, his truck started going sideways and he was sure he was going to crash and die. 
  
 But before he knew it, he was 100 yards up the road, he and his truck unscathed. He got out and started walking toward the light and the two tractor-trailers, which had stopped. But caution got the better of him, and he decided to get back in his truck and bolt. 
  
 A UFO reported April 16, 2009, over Apalachicola. "I call them patrollers because they patrol our skies," the witness said. 
  
 (Photo: MUFON) 
  
 “If I was a betting man, I would say it was something that’s not of this earth,” said Ellison, who lives outside Jacksonville. “I’ve been driving for a long time — there’s absolutely no way I could not have hit what was in the middle of the road. Something stopped me from hitting what it was and put me up about 100 yards in front of everything.” 
  
 MUFON ruled the case an actual unknown. Williams called the story a possible case of "missing time," something associated with UFOs. 
  
 And while Williams himself has never seen a UFO, he's open to the possibility they're out there. 
  
 "I'm sure there's life on other planets," he said. "And I think it's highly possible that they're visiting us. I think that accounts for some of the sightings." 
  
 But Joe Nickell, an investigator with the Skeptical Inquirer magazine who has spent four decades investigating flying saucers, haunted houses and other paranormal phenomena, pointed out science has never found a single extra-terrestrial craft, let alone an alien being. 
  
 "Most of the paranormal taps into our hopes and our fears," he said. "We're hopeful that we don't die, so we believe in ghosts. We're hopeful we're not alone in the universe, so we're looking for alien life. It's all a developing belief system in which the idea is that extra-terrestrials are coming to the planet Earth. And they aren't." 
  
 'How weird is that?' 
  
 One of the more recent sightings in the area happened the night of June 2 on Alligator Point. A family was outside on their back deck watching strange lights over the Gulf of Mexico. They reported watching two lights followed by a single one that multiplied into five before disappearing “without a sound.” 
  
 The family, who wished to remain anonymous, submitted video of the lights to MUFON, including their real-time reactions to what they were seeing. 
  
 A sketch of a UFO seen May 15, 1975 over Wellborn, between Live Oak and Lake City. "It happened," the witness said. "Nothing is shaped like that. Nothing can travel that fast. It was absolutely silent." 
  
 (Photo: MUFON) 
  
 Man: “How weird is that?” 
  
 Woman: “That is weird!” 
  
 Man: “I’ve been telling you for years that there’s aliens.” 
  
 Williams said another MUFON investigator looked into the sighting and determined the lights to be ordinary sky lanterns, though Williams himself said they may have been military flares or counter-measures. 
  
 Another case from November 2014 in Miramar Beach, just east of Destin and not far from Eglin Air Force Base, may seem outlandish to skeptics, but MUFON closed it as an actual UFO sighting. 
  
 A sketch of a UFO reported over Tallahassee on July 15, 2011. "I thought it might be a balloon but seemed to be moving under its own power in a straight line," the witness said. "It had a definite circular shape that I could see and it was metallic with a dome." 
  
 (Photo: MUFON) 
  
 Richard Norman, a retired police officer from Miami, was sitting in a golf cart near the beach when he spotted a star-like object moving in a straight line in the clear night sky. Suddenly, an oval-shaped light appeared the color of lime sherbet, with white light surrounding it. When the star-like object flew into it, the light imploded and the object was gone. Norman suspects the light may have been a portal of some kind, transporting the object to cosmic parts unknown. 
  
 “It doesn’t scare me,” said Norman, who's seen other UFOs before. “I would love for one to land right in the front yard. I’d probably be the first one out in the neighborhood welcome wagon.” 
  
 Number of sightings in the Big Bend: 
  
 Leon County: 28 
  
 Franklin County: 11 
  
 Wakulla County: 7 
  
 Gadsden County: 5 
  
 Jefferson County: 2 
  
 Source: Mutual UFO Network 
  
 The top 10 states for UFO sightings: 
  
 1. California: 11,542 
  
 2. Florida: 5,385 
  
 3. Washington: 5,163 
  
 4. Texas: 4,467 
  
 5. New York: 4,046 
  
 6. Arizona: 3,336 
  
 7. Pennsylvania: 3,296 
  
 8. Illinois: 3,174 
  
 9. Ohio: 3,049 
  
 10. Michigan: 2,570 
  
 Source: National UFO Reporting Center 
  
 MUFON gathering 
  
 A MUFON meetup will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 5, at the Woodville branch library, 8000 Old Woodville Road. Participants are asked to confirm by going to meetup.com. ||||| Focused crawls are collections of frequently-updated webcrawl data from narrow (as opposed to broad or wide) web crawls, often focused on a single domain or subdomain. |||||

Quick, name a UFO hot spot around the US. If northwest Florida didn't come to mind, maybe it should have. As the Tallahassee Democrat reports, the Big Bend region in the state has had all kinds of sightings dating back to the 1970s. In recent years, 50 sightings in Leon and surrounding counties have been reported to the nonprofit Mutual UFO Network. And the state as a whole is no slouch, either, with 58 reports to MUFON last month out of 985 worldwide. In fact, another tracking organization, the National UFO Reporting Center, says only California beats Florida in terms of overall sightings (11,542 vs. 5,385). So does this mean there thousands of UFOs flying around? Well, no, says MUFON. The group investigates all reports—from weird lights to tales of alien abductions—and usually links them to airplanes, drones, sky lanterns, or hoaxes. But it says five cases in Florida can't be explained. One involves Charles Ellison, who says he nearly crashed into a bright light while driving near Pensacola in 2012. He says he slammed on his brakes and skidded sideways. Then, suddenly, he was 100 yards up the road. He says he pulled over and started walked toward the light, but got spooked and drove away. "If I was a betting man, I would say it was something that's not of this earth." Click for the full story, which includes details of more strange encounters. (Another hot spot for UFO reports? Texas.)