Do UFOs Exist In Florida? See Latest Florida Sightings

SARASOTA, FL — If you've ever spotted an unidentified flying object in Florida, well that's just Florida for you, or maybe not.

UFO sightings never really left the news, but they’ve arguably never been more prevalent. Navy pilots recently spoke of seeing mysterious objects — with no discernible engine or exhaust fumes — flying at hypersonic speeds.

President Donald Trump recently said he was briefed on UFOs. A group of Senate lawmakers received a classified briefing this week about such objects. And let’s not get started on that strange Facebook video that seems to show a creepy-looking alien doing some sort of jig down someone’s driveway.

Virginia Democrat Sen. Mark Warner wants answers on UFOs, whether it’s “weather balloons, little green men, or something else entirely,” Rachel Cohen, his spokeswoman, told CNN. And the Navy has drafted guidelines to allow pilots to report UFOs, and so that the military can track them, though the military branch prefers not to use the term “UFO.”

“So, we don’t actually use that term,” Joseph Gradisher, a spokesman for the deputy chief of naval operations for information warfare, told Patch this week. “We use ‘Unmanned Aerial System.’”

The term, shortened to UAS, refers to things like recreational flying drones people can buy at a store. For the “other” things, the Navy uses the term UAP, meaning “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon.”

“We constitute anything unknown or unidentified in the airspace as an ‘Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon,’ no matter what it is,” he said

In that spirit, Patch took a look at the most recent Florida UFO sightings or UAPs, if you prefer, based on a database compiled by the National UFO Reporting Center. Spoiler alert: So far, no little green men have been seen running around.

There had been more than 20 sightings reported across Florida as of Friday for the month of June. Here's a summary of the June sightings in Florida:

Date of incident: 6/19/19
Time: 22:20
Place: Orlando
Duration: 12 minutes
What they reported: 15 strange oval lights above the low clouds south of Orlando.

Date of incident: 6/17/19
Time: 21:14
Place: Marathon
Duration: 20 seconds
What they reported: 1 round Orange Redish Ball. Traveled South to North over Duck Key at a slow speed.

Date of Incident: 6/17/19
Time: 12:15
Place: Naples
Duration: 30 seconds
What they saw: 2 separate stationary lights hover over Gulf of Mexico.

Date of incident: 6/16/19
Time: 17:37
Location: North Port
What they saw: MADAR Node 147

Date of incident: 6/16/19
Time: 00:10
Location: Sunrise
Duration: 2 seconds
What they saw: We were having a walk around 12:00 am Midnight, saw something shape of a ball moving so fast and vanished in the cloud... it was really

Date of incident: 6/16/19
Time: 00:05
Location: Sebring
What they saw: Asteroid E.M.i Warnings for September 26, 2019.

Date of incident: 6/14/19
Time: 13:00
Location: Maitland
Duration: 20 seconds
What they saw: Slender vertical craft seen disappearing behind a cloud

Date of incident: 6/12/19
Time: 22:00
Location: Melbourne Beach
Duration: Hour
What they saw: 2 tiny lights recorded for about a minute. We watched the top light bolt higher and then the lower light does a semi-circle.

Date of incident: 6/12/19
Time: 22:10
Location: Port Saint Lucie
What they saw: We thought two glowing double lighted planes then they turned into four then 8 the 9th was lower not in formation. They didn't move.

Date of incident: 6/11/19
Time: 21:50
Location: Punta Gorda
Duration: 2 minutes
What they saw: Was lightning sitting on Lanai. Saw what I thought was a star. I saw lights going left to right in the object in sky.

Date of incident:6/10/19
Time: 22:40
Place: Brandon
Duration: 5 seconds
What they saw: Orange light flying at low altitude appears and disappears after making U shaped dip down.

Date of incident: 6/8/19
Time 22:00
Location: Gulf Breeze
Duration: 1 minute
What they saw: Brighter than a star light travels the clear night sky, viewed by 6 adults for around a minute, then it just disappears.

Date of incident: 6/5/19
Time: 05:30
Location: Miami
Duration: 15 minutes
What they saw: Just followed lights from a couple feet of water surface Until up and out of sight, also have footage of on shooting of a laser.

Date of incident: 6/5/19
Time: 00:00
Location: Williston
Duration: 2 hours
What they saw: Saw large craft very high sat in one position for over ten minutes with slight position changes. The while time I was hearing a hovering

Date of incident: 6/4/19
Time: 20:22
Location: Miami
What they saw: I took a picture of the clouds during the setting of the sun.Then I noticed a red rectagular grid in the clouds. I was trying to figure

Date of incident: 6/4/19
Time: 05:00
Location: Grant-Valkaria
Duration: 4 minutes
What they saw: Three minute video shows an extremely large cube shaped object that appears to be rotating with a variable flash rate.

Date of incident:6/4/19
Time: 05:00
Location: Grant-Valkaria
Duration: 4 minutes
Two objects moving very slowly, very bright, flashing every 14 seconds. Recordied for 3 minutes.

Date of incident:6/4/19
Time: 01:20
Location: Fort Myers
Duration: 10 seconds
What they saw: Large orange fireball with long tail appeared over the Gulf of Mexico and appeared to get higher in the sky as it head east. Went from

Date of incident: 6/2/19
Time: 22:25
Location: North Port
What they saw: MADAR Node 147

Date of incident: 6/2/19
Time: 21:00
Location: Boca Raton
Duration: 5 minutes
What they saw: 5 lighted objects flying in a single file line formation before disappearing. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly Space Link satellites?? PD))

Date of incident: 6/1/19
Time: 20:00
Location: Venice
Duration: 5 minutes
What they saw: From fourth floor apartment, granddaughter saw a orange light decending from the sky over the Gulf of Mexico. we saw it moving very sl

According to data compiled by the center, there were nearly 500 sightings across the country in May and more than 300 in January, March and April. One of the most recent sightings logged by the trackers was June 6 in Roseville, Minnesota, just east of Minneapolis and north of St. Paul. In that sighting — which lasted all of four seconds — a resident was looking at the stars on a deck around 3:10 a.m. when they asked the sky for answers.

“I talked really quiet out-loud saying, ‘If there are any aliens up there please show me your space ship; do something,’” the person said, according to the incident report.

Sure enough, an object lit up for two seconds to the east and zoomed north, according to the account.

“I said, ‘Thank you; please do it again,’” the person reported.

And roughly one minute later, the witness saw the same thing, this time to the northeast, and moving in the same direction. The person described it as “what people who see UFOs call a power-up,” but noted it was for a very brief amount of time, almost as if “they only wanted me to see them.” The light was described as being in an oval shape and located about a mile away.

And if that sounds strange, get this — a day earlier, two people reported seeing a stationary disc shape with pulsing green, red, yellow and white lights moving back and forth over San Jose, California. The object was high in the sky and moved with the horizon, according to the incident report. The lights were in a straight horizontal line.

“Looked like five of these lights, which were square-shaped, tilted slightly up so it gave the appearance of a saucer,” the report said.

The Navy seems convinced of the existence of UFOs, telling POLITICO in a statement there were reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft “entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years.”

"For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report,” the statement said.

And Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot who reported his sightings to the Pentagon and Congress, told The New York Times last month he was one of multiple pilots who saw UFOs. The pilots began seeing the objects in 2014 and 2015 after receiving upgraded equipment.

Initially they believed they were getting bad readings. But the sightings kept happening, showing up at 30,000 feet, 20,000 feet and even at sea level. The objects could speed up, slow down and then reach hypersonic speeds.

“These things would be out there all day,” he said. “Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we’d expect.”

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.