{"id":344628,"date":"2026-07-18T17:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344628\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T17:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T17:55:08","slug":"top-20-florida-cities-for-ufo-sightings-one-on-treasure-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344628\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 20 Florida Cities for UFO Sightings, One on Treasure Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bocaratontribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UFO.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" data-caption=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/UFO.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"UFO\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Port St. Lucie ranked among the top 20 cities in Florida for unidentified flying object, or UFO sightings, according to an analysis by Hard Rock Bet.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The data was collected from the National UFO Reporting Center and reports were filtered by city to determine the number of sightings in each place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Orlando ranked No. 1 with 399 sightings and Lakeland ranked No. 20 with 73 sightings. Port St. Lucie had 95 recorded UFO sightings, according to the analysis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Top 20 Florida cities for UFO sightings<\/p>\n<p>1: Orlando<\/p>\n<p>2: Miami<\/p>\n<p>3: Jacksonville<\/p>\n<p>4: Tampa<\/p>\n<p>5: Sarasota<\/p>\n<p>6: Naples<\/p>\n<p>7: St. Petersburg<\/p>\n<p>8: Cape Coral<\/p>\n<p>9: Fort Lauderdale<\/p>\n<p>10: Pensacola<\/p>\n<p>11: Port St. Lucie<\/p>\n<p>12: Ocala<\/p>\n<p>13: West Palm Beach<\/p>\n<p>14: Bradenton<\/p>\n<p>15: Clearwater<\/p>\n<p>16: St. Augustine<\/p>\n<p>17: Gainesville<\/p>\n<p>18: Boca Raton<\/p>\n<p>19: Fort Myers<\/p>\n<p>20: Lakeland<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This article originally appeared on Treasure Coast Newspapers: Top 20 Florida cities for UFO sightings, one on Treasure Coast<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reporting by Olivia Franklin, Treasure Coast Newspapers \/ Treasure Coast Newspapers<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">USA TODAY Network via Reuters Connect<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stay tuned for more community news content.<a href=\"https:\/\/newsletter.bocaratontribune.com\/subscription?f=OwnN6ePFW9ZOMRBmd892DATgaxTd7q763aWl8BunD763aXR7cqOmewykwRyVrHIqsNZuIy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Join our list here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie ranked among the top 20 cities in Florida for unidentified flying object, or UFO sightings,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-344628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}