At present,the recognition of vibration events by distributed fiber optic vibration sensing is easy to overfit and the generalization ability is insufficient.We propose a distributed fiber optic vibration recognition method based on fractional Fourier transform(FrFT).The method uses FrFT for the time-frequency conversion of the time-domain vibration signals,which means adding a new analysis dimension compared with the traditional time-domain method.Compared with the traditional time-frequency domain method,this method not only solves the problem of mutual constraints of time resolution and frequency resolution but also enhances the feature richness of time-frequency data.It is more conducive to the learning of deep models and can effectively prevent model overfitting.Outdoor field experiments show that the recognition accuracy of the FrFT method reaches 98.5%,and the accuracy can still maintain more than 98%on the special generalization test set.At the same time,a more reliable evaluation index f1-score is introduced.The f1-score is the harmonic mean of precision and recall.It is used to comprehensively evaluate precision and recall.The f1-score of each event recognized by this method is higher than 0.975.