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)
Loxahatchee · FL, USA
Flashing light traveling up and down, side to side. ((NUFORC Note: Sighting of Venus or Jupiter?? PD))
Port Charlotte · FL, USA
At 21.06 hours I observed a orange and white Oval craft Bright and Obvious to the North of Port charlotte/East englewood. The craft was
Ponte Vedra · FL, USA
Two triangle shaped crafts with reddish orange lights appeared but shortly disappeared then reappeared but not as triangles but separat
Sanford · FL, USA
Perfect circle of yellow dots of light in the sky at approx 4pm that appeared then disappeared.
St. Petersburg · FL, USA
Two metallic objects with bright orange tails like comets streaked across the sky
Ponte Vedra Beach · FL, USA
Orange balls of light, blinking, drifiting in formations. ((anonymous report))
Orlando · FL, USA
The object was of a very bright orange color, too bright to figure out the exact shape, but they appeared to have a cylindrical body in
Dunedin · FL, USA
First noted craft hovering, then rotating white lights at a nearby location.
Jacksonville · FL, USA
Football field-sized aircraft with bight, green lights hovered for 2,5 minutes. Video shows lights flashing like sending a code.
Kissimmee · FL, USA
Bright red light was small then started to get bigger, flashed several times. ((NUFORC Note: Rocket launch from C. Canaveral. PD))
Palm Bay · FL, USA
Fiery red ball that seemed to change shape and moved in weird ways up and down and left to right.
Gainesville · FL, USA
3 lights that formed a triangle fairly high in the sky, they gave off a orange reddish glow.
Port St. Lucie · FL, USA
Rudolph's red nose ? big red ORB on christmas eve.
Palm Beach Gardens · FL, USA
I came out my house right after midnight Christmas Eve to take some stuff from my car and happened to see this object with rectangular.
Cape Coral · FL, USA
We had spend an couple hours enjoying a very small fire in a rock fire pit in our back yard. The fire was out down to embers.
Cape Coral · FL, USA
It looked exactly like a falling star but when it entered what i thought was the atmosphere it probably leveled out a couple miles.
Sarasota · FL, USA
Orange light.
Jacksonville · FL, USA
I noticed the moon had a ring around it and then saw a multi colored object in the sky.
Palmetto · FL, USA
Sitting outside, super clear, dark night, when we saw a fireball floating in the sky, heading south to north, no sound, no tail...
Brandon · FL, USA
Hovering, blimp-like structure, someone else must have seen it.
Miami · FL, USA
Large number of red-orange spheres over Miami.
Titusville · FL, USA
Saw 2 orange orbs rise from wooded land west of Titusville, head east and then follow I-95 north for several minutes.
Port Saint Lucie · FL, USA
Very odd. At about 11:45 pm on New Years Eve, I what appeared to be 2 orange "orbs" moving from the SE to NW direction.
Miramar · FL, USA
7 orange ships over Miramar, Florida.
Port St. Lucie · FL, USA
Triangle with a dim light at each corner. Each side of the craft was about the length of your little finger at arms length. Traveled