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)
Fort Walton Beach · FL, USA
Bright blue-white object leaving traces hovering over trees going up and down while accelerating. 2 witnesses REAL
New Port Richey · FL, USA
Boomerang Object = B-2 Stealth...not a UFO
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Quick moving ,very high
Miami · FL, USA
2 of us saw a bright oval shaped object and it hovered in one place and got brighter and brighter for 15 minutes and then disappeared.
Fort Lauderdale · FL, USA
Four Circular Objects traveling north Three of them in a straight line and one just east of the others
Rockledge · FL, USA
claw hand appears after using scanner on computer
Lynn Haven · FL, USA
it was just there
Sarasota · FL, USA
two dim stars that were in a formation a flew an arch pattern together. then faded quickly
Hallandale · FL, USA
Strange object , "flying" slowly, on a perfectly straight line, parallel with the buiding I live in.
Orlando · FL, USA
glowing pinkish light, thought to be mars, hovered and then dropped from the sky
South Daytona Beach · FL, USA
Three haloed lights, which appeared to be close, flying in a V formation, with no sound and at great speed.
Jacksonville · FL, USA
Shape shift from triangle to 1/2 circle then to 2 ovals hten fade.
Orlando · FL, USA
Bright moving stars/objects over central Florida on 8/26/2003 about 9:03pm
Jacksonville · FL, USA
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
Milton · FL, USA
08/28/03 10:30pm object appeared houvered,pulsated,and blinked while it rotated for 30 to 40 sec. then disappered
Margate · FL, USA
I recorded an object that was glowing brighter than a star. I thought it was Mars and I recently saw a story on the local news about a
Daytona Beach · FL, USA
Glowing football shaped objects flying in straight line formation wing tip to wing tip over Daytona Beach, FL
Boca Raton · FL, USA
While traveling home on a major highway in Boca Raton, FL, I saw a spaceship in the sky with a light coming out from the bottom.
Panama City Beach · FL, USA
It seemed to hover in small circles about three times then it shot out of site toward the southeast sky.
West Palm Beach · FL, USA
Only showed up in the pictures
Cedar Key · FL, USA
Very intense bright and changing light with many colors very far away .
Port St. Lucie · FL, USA
Red Orb type ball crashing or descending
Bonita Springs · FL, USA
Bright white objects in night sky seen in SW Florida
Seminole · FL, USA
none because to far away to see actually what it was.
Miami · FL, USA
It was oval shape bright white blue ball in the middle with a oval halo around it and came out from the sky into another dimension.