UFO sightings in Florida
Florida's most studied episode is the Gulf Breeze sightings of 1987–88, a long series of photographs by resident Ed Walters that split investigators between endorsement and hoax. More recently the state produced the 2024 'Miami mall aliens' online panic, a public-order incident recast as a cover-up.
Florida case files in the archive
Saw something over Florida?
Most strange lights have an ordinary cause. Run the identifier: seven questions and the three most likely explanations, from a Starlink train to Venus to a drone, each with how to confirm it.
Note the exact time, the compass direction, the height above the horizon, how long it lasted and how it moved. Check a flight tracker and a satellite app before deciding it is unexplained.
File it. The National UFO Reporting Center and MUFON take reports from every US state, Florida included, and their databases are where the per-state counts actually live.
Other states with famous cases
The famous cases above follow the public record; XenoAtlas documents claims and their explanations and takes no position on whether any involved non-human contact. Per-state sighting counts are maintained by NUFORC and MUFON. For the big cases on a map, see the case files.