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)
Tallahassee · FL, USA
1988 Tallahassee, FLA V-shape object with white lights!
Miami · FL, USA
Sighting near turkey point nuclear power plant Miami, Fl.
Sarasota (Myaka State Park) · FL, USA
state road 72 disk with lights around it flew in a fast horizontal motion.
Osceola County · FL, USA
This huge UFO blew me away in the 80's along with dozens of others on Fl. Turnpike SE of Orlando.
St. Cloud · FL, USA
Huge UFO Seen in Osceola County, Central Florida, Summer of 1985 or 1986
Clearwater · FL, USA
This is not the flying spaceship UFO, but since it wasnt on the ground or identifiable this seemed the place to go. For 24 years I kept
Polk City · FL, USA
See Video and pictures. Thanks, ((name deleted))
Ocala · FL, USA
rectangular, transparent, huge object with points of red lights at each intersection moving slowing and low through the night sky.
Ocala · FL, USA
Approximately 10:00 pm, saw a very large triangular (for lack of better word) shaped object traveling from southwest to northeast. The
Eglin AFB · FL, USA
My father and I witnessed a UFO at Eglin AFB.
Jay · FL, USA
my daughter was born with an in-opertable brain tumor, we were visited late one night by three cloaked beings, when they entered our ro
Brooksville · FL, USA
we were driving on aback road when we saw a space ship side ways and people in a field in a open cirls
Panama City · FL, USA
3 transparent Delta-wing shaped obects flying in formation over the Gulf of Mexico in 1986
Tampa · FL, USA
i was looking up at 12 oclock, with city light polution around, saw star sized lite going s. for aprox. 7 sec. 90 to lft. 3sec. n. 4se
Dade City (near) · FL, USA
While camping in the late 80's we had several encounters with a silent triangular object 300-400ft above our camp site
Delray Beach · FL, USA
Saucer with white gassy bottom approaches beachgoers at night and zips in, and zips away...silently.
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
I seen a being made of light in 1986,and never knew what it was.
West Palm Beach · FL, USA
UFO SIGHTING 1986
NASA · FL, USA
White Objects flying during the Space Shuttle Challenger 1/28/1986
Brandon · FL, USA
triangle SHIP 60 to 80 feet high,SPEED 3 TO 5 MPH,I SAW IT ALL,....................
Coconut Creek · FL, USA
Two ships, 500 feet away, over Tradewinds Park and as large as 2 to 3 football fields each
Plant City · FL, USA
Summer 1985 sighting
Pensacola · FL, USA
strange lights moveing in a circle
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
UFO seen in St. Pete, Fl
Tampa · FL, USA
My two children and their friends ,playing on a swingset in our backyard,in tampa fl. called to me , "come outside mom nd see the ufo's