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)
Newberry · FL, USA
Teardrop shaped object that looked like a giant light bulb laying on its side heading north at about 100 feet in altitude and about 500
Davie · FL, USA
A 2 second flash of light in the sky, described as a jagged oval white light.
Gulf Breeze · FL, USA
It was a yellow triangular craft that came over my home. They flew over for about five minutes and then vanished. There was a loud scre
Plant City · FL, USA
Visual observance of an object high in a clear sky that appeared to ascend and disappear.
West Palm Beach · FL, USA
Six people see an object change from glowing red to blinking aircraft to flaming blue meteor.
St. Augustine · FL, USA
ON MY WAY HOME I SAW A GLOWING SPHERE WITH A FIREY TRAIL, MUCH LIKE A COMET, EXCEPT THAT IT DIDN'T APPEAR TO MOVE.
Clermont · FL, USA
Four glowing balls
Miami · FL, USA
silver/goldish color shiny object in the air
Pensacola · FL, USA
Turned off of Bayou Blvd in on onto Godwinson. Saw an extremely bright red light slowly moving down from the sky with one trail of smok
Pensacola · FL, USA
Light with trail that stalled.
New Smyrna Beach · FL, USA
green orb disappears behind cloud
Miami · FL, USA
possibl eufo sighted in miami dade county florida near airport
Miami · FL, USA
Large hovering metallic object in path of landing aircraft
Sanford · FL, USA
Large, low, slow moving black triangular object with mulitple lights
Davie · FL, USA
Dumbell shaped object with 2 bright white lights and a thin line connecting them spotted daytime over Davie Florida
Nokomis · FL, USA
It appeared to be a large TV screen with no depth, but having two colors, dull grey and red markings.
Pembroke Pines · FL, USA
bright cloud and a bright trail of a falling object. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly the launch of the Space Shuttle?? PD))
Sunny Isles Beach · FL, USA
I took four pictures of space shuttle launch but I did note at time to take my first shooting something else at right of the compositio
St. Augustine · FL, USA
Large bright circular object viewed over the ocean's horizon at St. Augustine Pier
Riverview · FL, USA
Red light in the sky
Largo · FL, USA
Fast moving object with cyclic whistling noise.
Valrico · FL, USA
It looked too large & bright for a star, then it split in 2, and when it flew over me I could see it was triangular with 4 lights.
Coral Springs · FL, USA
Orange shooting star seeing on the South Florida night sky
Clearwater · FL, USA
Went outside to have a smoke, noticed a metallic, egg-shaped object very very high up moving very fast, disappeared after a minute.
Tampa · FL, USA
UFO spotted on TV right before the Superbowl