How many UFOs have been spotted in Florida? Here’s the count

Jan. 1 Bradenton Orb “Light came down, move sideways, then back upwards until it disappeared.” Jan. 3 Loxahatchee Light “Behavior not normal” Jan. 3 Port St. Lucie Fireball “A large cloud appeared and had a Bright light. Called for wife to come out to look, and a bright light appeared out of the cloud.” Jan. 3 N/A Light “On the January 4, 2024 episode of the Dan Bongino Show on Rumble, Dan Bongino shared a very recent UFO sighting.” Jan. 4 Gainesville Rectangle “Craft approximately size of medium ship” Jan. 10 Marion Oaks Other “Cloud formation of 5 discs. Took photographs.” Cloud Jan. 11 Lakeland Cross “It was too glowing to be an aircraft.” Jan. 19 Crestview Light “Blinking lights in pattern. Not normal for area at all.” Jan. 20 Tampa Changing “When I pulled my phone out to record, it turned its lights off and sped off over my house, but I was still able to record it clearly.” Jan. 23 Jacksonville Circle “Saw a bright orange object moving in the sky. It disappeared eventually behind a cloud. After recording, another one came by again.” Jan. 27 Osprey Disk “Disc-shaped objects still in the sky for about 2.5 hours with about nine circular lights along the length, larger in the middle.” Jan. 28 Jupiter Island Changing “Ball of red light — hovered 30 seconds, then began flying toward horizon. As it got smaller, a white half-circle of light trailed a bit.” Jan. 28 Palm Beach Changing “Saw an object moving slowly with what appeared to be a tail or trail behind it.” Rocket? Feb. 2 Pompano Beach Cone “Initially, we observed one, but as we continued to look, we spotted many more.” Balloon? Feb. 9 Tampa Orb “As captured by front-door camera” Insect Feb. 13 Orlando Unknown “Random flying lights” Feb. 14 Oxford Other “It looked like a cloud in front of a bright star to begin with…” Rocket Feb. 19 Cottondale Sphere “They were flying low toward me from the southeast, almost side-by-side, zigzagging really fast. Flew over me and cut back sharp south.” Feb. 19 Hilliard Light “While operating an aircraft in cruise at FL400, the crew observed three lights appearing and disappearing for approximately one hour, 25 minutes.” Feb. 20 Trenton Triangle “Black triangle craft, one yellowish-white light at each tip” Feb. 20 Tampa Unknown “Multiple objects. Visible with sunglasses. Not visible with naked eye — only shimmers of light.” Birds? Feb. 21 Deerfield Beach Circle “Object circular flashing orange” Feb. 24 DeFuniak Springs Triangle “First saw orangish-white lights rotating or flashing from a distance in the north sky” Feb. 28 Holiday Orb “Me and my family were out on a walk. At the end of the meaningful walk, me and my dad looked up, and it zoomed, stopped, waved and left.” March 3 Lauderhill Circle “White circle met up with two more white circles, formed a triangle, flew upward into the sky.” March 3 Altamonte Springs Sphere “Had foggy gas following it and was moving super slow, like hovering over in front of my house.” Rocket? March 4 Vero Beach Fireball “Bright orange trail, which then seemed to disappear and reappear as a milky or cloudy orb in the sky, still traveling south. Lost sight.” Rocket March 5 Tampa Orb “Saw orb-shaped object over water” March 6 Pensacola Unknown “Three white lights that moved together” March 9 Jupiter Sphere “I was driving northbound on I-95 coming home from a camping trip with my son, and I saw a floating orb. No mistaking it as a balloon or plane.” March 15 Largo Triangle “We saw the object approaching our location from the northeast at a high speed.” March 15 Daytona Beach Formation “Eight lights abreast flying northward” March 28 Delray Beach Unknown “Walking dogs with my wife, and this weird formation floated across the sky and looked like it was morphing.” Balloon March 30 Middleburg Orb “Traveled the whole view of the sky in a second or two.” April 4 Punta Gorda Teardrop “At tree-top level, no sound, moving maybe 40 mph, pink-white-blue foggy look” April 5 Cocoa Beach Cylinder “Extraordinarily fast, unbelievably quiet, whitish, kind of translucent” April 7 Spring Hill Oval “Looking up at the early evening sky and noticed the object hovering directly above at approximately 10,000 feet.” April 7 Cape Coral Light “A blinking green light moving rapidly horizontally from west to east and then east to west.” April 8 Pembroke Pines Cylinder “Didn’t actually see it real time. Appeared in picture I took of the solar eclipse behind heavy clouds.” Camera Anomaly April 12 Navarre Triangle “Craft was seen overhead with a triangle shape. Seems to be camouflaged.” April 12 Royal Palm Beach Star “Object moved at a high rate of speed from southeast to northwest approximately 30,000 feet in the air 4-5 miles away.” April 12 Navarre Triangle “Triangle object, 16 visible lights, craft left line of sight without flying over horizon, instead apparently leaving orbit.” April 14 Lakewood Ranch Light “Fast-moving streak of light, sometimes splitting into two or three pieces” Insect April 15 Zephyrhills Other “Silent, slow with fast acceleration. Low but climbed high quickly, hard to video, black, ‘glitchy’” April 25 Marineland Circle “Stationary object(s) high in the southern early-evening sky” April 28 Tice Orb “Photo of round metallic object” Balloon? May 1 Lakeland Orb “Light recorded on SD ring doorbell” Aircraft? May 4 Sarasota Other “Gray bell-shaped object spotted flying” Balloon? May 5 Jacksonville Formation “Several lights on an arched trajectory, staying in place before quickly accelerating away.” May 6 Bradenton Formation “100 blue orb formations, white star-like orbs speeding across the sky and speeding toward each other!” May 10 Clewiston Light “We saw two extremely bright lights 50 feet off the ground going past us, heading south.” May 11 St. Petersburg Flash “Pair of blinking green plane-like lights that hovered a while, then started to dart/jag at odd, fast speeds.” May 12 Kissimmee Fireball “We witnessed a rocket-like anomaly shooting upward in the sky.” May 13 Sarasota Oval “It was flying like a plane but was flat as a pancake.” May 16 Orlando Other “When I first saw, it was heading down, then a few minutes later, started to go up.” Contrail May 17 Lake Placid Fireball “Orange contrail, disappeared; reappeared white; huge translucent teardrop, then two-to-three small lights detached, traveling within the fireball.” Rocket May 21 Bartow Cone “No noise, flew in side-by-side formation then stacked formation until disappearance.” Birds? May 21 Orlando Chevron “My significant other and I looked into cloudless night sky together and saw a silent, slow, wide and low ‘V’ outlined in moonlight moving in a line.” May 22 Kissimmee Star “What I thought was a star appeared and then started moving across the sky slowly and then dissipated.” May 22 Alafaya Cigar “Bright yellow light, low in the sky, could see it was long. As I got closer, it wasn’t moving.” May 28 Ormond Beach Oval “Oval-shaped, no wings, shiny chrome, flying higher than the airplanes.” June 8 Brooksville Light “Moving light shining down on me” June 9 Satellite Beach Oval “I saw an oblong-shaped white object above to my left that was low altitude moving from east to west, with slightly more westerly direction.”