The Florida sightings follow a spike in general of UFO reports. Sightings of unidentified objects in 2020 rose by some 1,000 nationwide compared to 2019, to more than 7,200 sightings, according to the UFO center.
Last week, The New York Post revealed that an ex-Pentagon official who says he ran the program probing unidentified aerial phenomena believes the government has been covering up the existence of UFOs.
The controversial whistleblower, Luis "Lue" Elizondo, said he hasn’t been able to get the Defense Department to act on what he described as a serious national security risk.
Elizondo, the former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, spoke out ahead of a bombshell government report on UFOs that is set to be released before the end of June.