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 Lauderdale · FL, USA
i think it was trying to steal the stadium ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report. PD))
North Miami Beach · FL, USA
object blocks night sky above
Tampa · FL, USA
Tampa, Fl. 7/5/79, Saucer shape object lit from underneath moving west toward the international airport or Tampa bay.
Ocala · FL, USA
fishing over resevoir object hovered for 20 minutes 2-3 feet above water, went straight up into space until it became vanished
Margate · FL, USA
Night, black, silent, round, oval, pulsating lights on edge, very close proximity
Orlando · FL, USA
Several of my friends and I where in a school playground and a saucer with lights on bottom (colors) was about 200 feet above us and ma
Gainesville · FL, USA
Glowing light moves slowly, hovers then shoots straight up into the sky and vanishes
Panama City Beach · FL, USA
Five bright lights or glowing oval objects hovered over the horizon south of Panama City Beach, FL, during Memorial Day 1979.
Daytona · FL, USA
Large metallic perfect disk (goldish)
Jupiter · FL, USA
Bright Light outside of the house
Key West · FL, USA
A small unexplainable hovering object I spotted as a child of 10 while walking home from school one day in the 70s
Port St. Joe · FL, USA
Sighting In Florida
Flemington · FL, USA
This incident is my very first of two in my lifetime I have witnessed and happened when I was 18 which was a little more than 30 years
Tampa (outskirts of) · FL, USA
round object-big as about 5 hot air-realy big-- ballons-lights-windows-saw people aboard-spectators
Dundee (5 miles east of) · FL, USA
My sister and I were takeing the garbage cansup the driveway one summer night. Three whiteglowing ojects in triangular formation flew
Alligator Alley · FL, USA
Late summer night drive in August 1978 heading east across Alligator Alley sometime after midnight I experienced several unusual telepa
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Nightmare of UFO attack preceds actual UFO sightings by 24 hours, coincidence?
New Symrna beach · FL, USA
Formation of orbs daytime chased by fighter jets over beach in New Symrna, Florida 1978.
Pensacola · FL, USA
Pensacola, FL- a space craft of immese size appeared without sound
Florida Keys · FL, USA
A unidentified erratically flying object spotted at night in the Florida Keys in the late seventies
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Personal confirmation that UFOs cloak themselves and could be in our skies at any given time of day or night.
Miami · FL, USA
Five bright, round, white lights in formation were seen, three together and two together, but then they suddenly disappeared.
Eglin AFB · FL, USA
Group of USAF cadets and an officer saw a saucer at an air force base.
Fort Lauderdale · FL, USA
Chevron Wedge of approx. 20 small luminescent disks; in actuality one large individual UFO with round "running lights" below.
Orlando · FL, USA
we were camping in a friends yard fairly dark night as I recall . we saw 5 disk shapes flying in a v formation the had a greenish w