UFO Sightings in Florida
7,644 UFO sightings reported in Florida since 1944, peaking in 2014 (644 reports); most often described as light.
- Total sightings
- 7,644
- Span
- 1944–2022
- Peak year
- 2014 (644 reports)
- Dominant shape
- Light
1944–2022 · peak 2014 (644 reports)
Top cities in Florida
Orlando
1961–2022 · peak 2013 (35 reports)
Miami
1946–2022 · peak 2012 (25 reports)
Jacksonville
1951–2022 · peak 2014 (28 reports)
Tampa
1952–2022 · peak 2015 (18 reports)
Sarasota
1969–2022 · peak 2012 (14 reports)
St. Petersburg
1964–2022 · peak 2017 (12 reports)
Naples
1976–2022 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
Cape Coral
1993–2021 · peak 2014 (13 reports)
Fort Lauderdale
1959–2022 · peak 2008 (7 reports)
Port St. Lucie
1991–2022 · peak 2014 (16 reports)
Pensacola
1955–2020 · peak 2019 (11 reports)
West Palm Beach
1967–2022 · peak 2013 (10 reports)
St. Augustine
1973–2022 · peak 2017 (8 reports)
Ocala
1965–2021 · peak 2019 (9 reports)
Bradenton
1970–2022 · peak 2011 (7 reports)
Gainesville
1967–2021 · peak 2008 (6 reports)
Boca Raton
1972–2022 · peak 2014 (12 reports)
Clearwater
1987–2021 · peak 2013 (8 reports)
Fort Myers
1996–2022 · peak 2017 (7 reports)
Tallahassee
1983–2021 · peak 2015 (6 reports)
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Bright white flash of light.
Punta Gorda · FL, USA
Two lights over Punta Gorda, Florida.
Destin · FL, USA
17:15 Destin, Fl, Sphere 2 minute duration orange sphere Light fading in and out and big then small and big again.
Fort Lauderdale · FL, USA
Extremely loud boom!
Palm Beach Gardens · FL, USA
Located about ESE , about 3 miles distance from the ocean, obvious stationary above the ocean .Round bright whitish- not moving for a
Homestead · FL, USA
Three orange lights in triangular formation seen over South Dade Senior High.
Davie · FL, USA
Fleet of Ornage UFO's crossing into FLL airport aproach pattern.
Orlando · FL, USA
3 dots floating down and dissapearing.
Titusville · FL, USA
Observed brilliant white circular light emitting a bright blue lazer like beam from each side.
Kissimme · FL, USA
Glowing circular object flaming across the sky leaving glowing white smoke and seen by people playing basketball.
Gainesville · FL, USA
Very strange and interesting.
Lehigh · FL, USA
Comet like Fire Ball Turned into craft then there were two then they disappeared.
Lehigh Acres · FL, USA
Comet Like fire ball turned into craft disappeared into cloud the emerged with another craft behind it.
Glen St. Mary · FL, USA
Fireball in sky with shock wave that was emitted as white orbs appeared.
Pompano Beach · FL, USA
a large object entering the atmosphere from NW to SE followed by a very bright trail I estimate the altitude of 10,000 ft when the obje
Lake Worth · FL, USA
Main craft strange plume. Two fireballs split off.
Lakeland · FL, USA
saw one craft with horizontal jet stream come to a stop then split into two crafts with tear dropped orb surrounding them then began to
Lake Worth · FL, USA
Main craft, strange plumes, 2 'fireball-like' objects broke away from main object
Lake Worth · FL, USA
Fiery orange object splits into 3 silver objects.
Trinity · FL, USA
Fireball in the sky over Wesley Chapel, Florida.
Royal Palm Beach · FL, USA
Everyone that saw admitted never seen anything like it
Sebastian · FL, USA
fireball in sky
Lehigh Acres · FL, USA
Strange lights cause separate vapor trails. ((NUFORC Note: Possible contrails, we wonder. PD))
Captiva · FL, USA
13TH SIGHTING OF AN ORANGE “FIREBALL. THIS ONE WAS SMALL AND CHANGED COLORS, THEN SPLIT IN TWO.
Clermont · FL, USA
UFO traveling from north to south near Clermont, FL area; went down, then up, and then disappeared across sky.