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Tampa, FL
Florida · Hillsborough County · Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Metro
Tampa is a large city in Florida with a population of 393,389. Residents earn $71,302 per year, which is 5% below the national average.
3.3
/5.0
B
Good
393,389
Population
3,436/sq mi density
$71,302
Median Income
$49,513 per capita
$375,300
Home Value
$369,079 Zillow
$1,567
Median Rent
32.5% income on rent
74°F
Avg Temperature
340 sunny days/yr
405
Violent Crime/100K
1,629 property/100K
B
Overall
3.3 / 5.0
Good overall score based on economy, affordability, safety and education
B+
Economy
3.9 / 5.0
$71,302 median income, 3.1% unemployment
B+
Affordability
3.7 / 5.0
$375,300 home value, $1,567/mo rent
F
Safety
1.0 / 5.0
405 violent crimes/100K (7% above avg)
A+
Education
4.6 / 5.0
44.6% bachelor's degree or higher
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UFO Sightings
137
Reported UFO sightings from the National UFO Reporting Center database
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Historic Markers
22
Officially designated historical markers from the Historical Marker Database
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Mines
1
Active and inactive mining sites tracked by the Mine Safety and Health Administration
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UFO Sightings Near Tampa, FL
137 UFO sighting reports from the National UFO Reporting Center (NUFORC) found near Tampa, FL.
| Name | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Macdill air force base tampa, FL | 2014 | Morphing White Lights Photographed from inside Air Force Base |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | Orange lights in the sky. |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | Red and white lights over Tampa, Fl. |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | 7-8 orange lights 3/8/2014 over Tampa. |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | String of blinking red light aircraft. |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | On Tuesday 2/18/2014 on or about 9:46 am while standing on my front porch me and my nephew were observing this commercial southwest ai |
| Tampa, FL | 2014 | Weird brownish manmade looking object in sky. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | 5 crafts spotted in Tampa. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | Glowing hoop. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | Orange and red pulsating ball traverses a small portion of the sky and vanishes |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | On my drive home I was looking into an otherwise clear sky, with the exception of what I thought was a plane. I watched the plane with |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | Glowing purple sphere remained stationary and then moved up and down until disappeared below tree line. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | UFO spotted from a distance, round or almost pear/diamond shaped object, white in color, and absolutely no sound came from it. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | My dad is retired pilot from the military, we look out the window and all of sudden see tons of tinny lights people walking outside all |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | A cross shaped glowing figure fell at a rapid speed from the sky shortly after midnight. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | 3 flat, black, disc shapes w/lights descending rapidly over interstate in FL, looked like a flares or rockets. |
| Tampa, FL | 2013 | Intensely bright light sphere high up in the sky over the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Tampa (near), FL | 2012 | Orange circles with many smaller circles within them .... changing to white random shapes. |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | Amber ball with tail |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | A fiery round craft headed north at low altitude followed by an identical craft a few seconds behind. |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | Two fire ball like flying objects seen following each other in Tampa On Christmas Eve |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | LOW FLYING UFO STOPPED IN MID AIR OVER TAMPA, FL. THEN VANISHED! |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | 09/23/2012 in florida 8:30pm driving in my car spotted a red ball of fire floating in the sky,looked like it was coming toward the grou |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | 3 bright red lights over tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | 2 Orange Lights |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | UFO WAS HOVERING AND MAKING A WEIRD SOUND THEN IT TOOK OFF. |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | Orange orb about 1/2 mile up. Traveled in a straight line N to S about a minute then faded out. Not a plane. No flashing lights. |
| Tampa, FL | 2012 | The pinkish orange lights dimmed out as the diamond shaped object moved overhead toward the east. |
| Macdill afb, FL | 2011 | air fest mcdill air force base,two ufo's spotted-11-6-12 |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Chilling, giant, bright, green ball of fire between Lakewood (Providence) and hwy 41. |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Saucer Shaped UFO sighted in night sky |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | unknown falling object from the sky over tampa fl |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | It was a large green sphere streaking from the East toward the West (toward Tampa Bay & Gulf). It had a tail, like a comet tail extend |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Bright white light hovering high in sky over S. Tampa. ((NUFORC Note: Possible twinkling star? PD)) |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Bright hovering white light and triangle craft seen over Tampa Bay. |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Two white lights that looked like stars followed by a third that moved away at a rapid speed. |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | somthing came out of the ocean and flew up with a boom, out of sight in seconds |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Fireball swirling with black center shot thru sky in downward spiral heading west |
| Tampa, FL | 2011 | Green fireball with tail in night sky. ((NUFORC Note: Possible meteor, containing copper?? PD)) |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | Apparently one dimensional grey rectangle floating low in sky in broad daylight, busy traffic, somewhat fluid looking. 500 Lights O |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | just a black cylinder that hovers with no sound. and a helicopter near by. |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | triangular airplane that sorta looked like it but different hovering over building. |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | I was driving at about 6:20 pm, bright daylight, in late rush hour when I saw a large, gray, rectangular shape floating low in the sky |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | Multi-colored illuminated circular object hovers near and crosses over busy interstate highway. |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | It appeared as aircraft, but at least at 100ꯠ feet high. But 30 or 40 of them? How? We all stopped our cars and stared at this. |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | 2 red globes in sky over Tampa on July 4th 2010 |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | Sorry for the false information but I didn't know another way to reach you. I my self have been questioned years ago for statements I m |
| Tampa, FL | 2010 | Floating Humanoid sighting in Tampa (West Chase) Florida area Aug 4, 2010. ((NUFORC Note: May not be a serious report. PD)) |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | A bright green sphere about the size of the moon shot across the sky in Tampa FL. |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | White Triangle |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | Fighter jets circled the object |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | UFO spotted on TV right before the Superbowl |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | I took picture of high flying airplane and when downloaded on computer saw what looks like a very large disc shape crossing ahead of je |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | Wierd cigar shape flying object with strange aura and no sound. |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | I was taking a series of pics of airliner and in only two pics did an unknown object appear. At first it was small white dot and in n |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | metallic silver object clearly seen hovering in the afternoon over tampa and after a minute of observing vanished without a trace. |
| Tampa, FL | 2009 | Blue glowing object in tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | White oval shaped light moving too swiftly and erraticly to be notmal aircraft. |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | Cheveron craft over Tampa, FL |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | strange colored light in the sky that vanished |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | Silver metallic oval-shaped object seen over I-4 in Tampa, Florida on 09/27/2008 in daylight |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | Street lights went black and a strange blueish-white light came down from the sky |
| Tampa, FL | 2008 | odd shaped flying object |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | 2 crafts seen gliding over city |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | Ufo Danced over Tia from a distance it looked still but i put the zoom on the camera and wallah |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | video footage of USO/UFO ignored (brilliant). Say hello history channel...u will c the footage there....... |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | Flashing disk shaped object at St. Petersberg Tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | Bluish Egg Shaped craft with red and blue blinking lights over Tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | Smoke screen from aircraft shaped like three v's sideways with two lower case e's off to the left ........at least 6 aircraft |
| Tampa, FL | 2007 | Comet like object with a crayon in the middle. ((NUFORC Note: Missile venting fuel in space. PD)) |
| Sim, FL | 2006 | Close to a shuttle launch |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Two single, white lights travelling S to N at moderate speed & altitude caused electrical disturbance to car. |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Bayshore Blvd. flying disc. |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Black Circular object flying high over tampa Florida |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | White Boomerang causes chemtrail laying jet to veer off course. |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Triangler shaped object seen flying Towards Tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Pale green pulsing light with dark rectagular core |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Comet like object seen over South Tampa emitting red spheroids. |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | At 2 am in Tampa Fl I saw 2 different UFO's |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | 3 sets of two lights move fast over tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Flickering light in Tampa, FL |
| Tampa, FL | 2006 | Large diamond or saucer-shaped obect just north of Tampa, FL with red flashing lights top and bottom and white lights at ends. |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | Single white light moved accross the horizon then vanished |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | Saucer-shaped object , about the size of two football fields traveling at high speed over air force base! |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | translucent isosoles triangle with red flashing light at each triangle point moving in an arc through the sky |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | Moving "star" that started out stationary and sped off at high altitude. |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch out of Cape Canaveral. PD)) UFO Sighting 04-29-05 Tampa, FL |
| Tampa, FL | 2005 | ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT). PD)) there were three (they were the size of my fist) and two disappeared… |
| Tampa, FL | 2004 | It was circling another star and I ran inside to call everyone. |
| Tampa, FL | 2004 | I saw a green fireball over the city of Tampa Fl. |
| Tampa, FL | 2004 | CYLINDRICAL OBJECT REVOLVING WITH ONE END GLOWING |
| Tampa, FL | 2004 | Huge rectangular object at 2:05 pm flying(or whatever) low and slow. |
| Tampa, FL | 2004 | Triangular lights observed during total lunar eclipse. |
| Tampa (south of), FL | 2003 | Weird Lights In Tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 2003 | What was thought to be a released childs balloon suddenly becomes extremely fast round black object that dissapears out of sight. |
| Tampa, FL | 2003 | A sighting of an apparent ball of flames turned into three smaller spheres... ((NUFORC Note: Titan 4 launch from Cape Canaveral. PD)) |
| Tampa, FL | 2003 | large ufo -triangle shaped-three lights ((NUFORC Note: Titan 4 launch from Cape Canaveral. PD)) |
| Tampa, FL | 2003 | Two unidentified crafts noted over the Gulf of Mexico. |
| Tampa, FL | 2002 | High Altitude Silver Disc, Heading West. Over South Tampa, FL. 19:56 5/21/02 Want Radar Confirmation. |
| Tampa, FL | 2002 | Firefly type light seen in Tampa knight skies. |
| Tampa, FL | 2002 | Small flying blue orb of light about the size of a basketball |
| Tampa, FL | 2002 | Pulsating Diamond Shaped object ejects two orbs of light towards the ground. |
| Tampa, FL | 2001 | bright, very bright, glowing blue, circular shaped. |
| Tampa, FL | 2001 | Black line in sky running from horizon to top of sky. |
| Tampa, FL | 2001 | UFO IN TAMPA ASSENDED INTO NIGHT SKY 6-17-01 |
| Tampa, FL | 2001 | Lightless,soundless sphere glides over tampa, 1:30 Sunday morning, Nov 18. |
| Ybor, FL | 2000 | Large object above thousands... and only a few reacted. |
| Tampa, FL | 1999 | I have a video tape, I was taping lightning and played it back and saw alot of unusual fireballs and things such as that. |
| Tampa, FL | 1999 | Traveling across Gandy bridge, saw silver saucer shape trailing right behind a jet approaching Tampa In'tl. airpt. I noticed because th |
| Tampa, FL | 1999 | HI PETER괒AMEST DOG STARTED BARKING WENT TO FRONT DOOR APPROX 40DEG ABOVE EST HORIZ FAST MOVING LIGHT FLASHING(WHITE)TAKE CARE GOOD H |
| Tampa, FL | 1999 | Went out to get paper and saw bright light in the sky. Looked like a huge plane exploding at first. Bright flames at rear bluish in c |
| Tampa (near), FL | 1998 | We (my wife and I and our 4 children) were headed south on Interstate 75 when to the west we saw (my wife and I) what appeared to be t |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | A LITTLE LARGER THAN A FULL MOON (WHITE IN COLOR). TWO FAST MOVING CIRCLES MOVING IN LARGE CIRCLES. ANOTHER DRIFTING SLOWLY. NO SOUND |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | Flying V seen by multiple wintesses in during meteor shower. |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | 5 G light, only alien, or they figured out how to reverse gravity, or the sense of. |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | On the date and time listed above my girlfriend and I saw two unknown objects over the Tampa Bay area. They were appeared to be trapezo |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | I viewed two bright white-colored objects for about 20-30 seconds just before dusk. The objects then vanished. |
| Tampa, FL | 1998 | I saw a craft that probably was not from earth. |
| Tampa, FL | 1997 | ET Stops for Big Gulp? |
| Tampa, FL | 1996 | Man & son witness two bright objects in SSE sky. Very bright, with "ring of light" around one of them. (Possible twinkling stars?) |
| Tampa, FL | 1996 | Disc shaped craft in downtwon Tampa, FL in 1996 |
| Tampa, FL | 1995 | Man looks at disc of moon w/ binoculars. Sees bright, round "dot" move very fast across face of moon. Convincing rept. |
| Tampa, FL | 1995 | Woman & husband witness "extremely brilliant white light w/ pink & blue" in the E sky. Appeared to eject obj. Changed shape. |
| Tampa, FL | 1992 | UFO Saucer was seen hovering beyond trees as we were driving towards home and then disappeared. |
| Tampa/miami (on highway between), FL | 1987 | My family were visiting disney world Christmas of 1987. Because the family was from Winnipeg Manitoba Canada, we were staying in Tampa |
| Tampa, FL | 1986 | i was looking up at 12 oclock, with city light polution around, saw star sized lite going s. for aprox. 7 sec. 90 to lft. 3sec. n. 4se |
| Tampa, FL | 1985 | My two children and their friends ,playing on a swingset in our backyard,in tampa fl. called to me , "come outside mom nd see the ufo's |
| Tampa, FL | 1984 | cylindrical shaped object with rotating display |
| Tampa, FL | 1980 | MISSOURI INVESTIGATORS GROUP Report: I seen a pancake shaped object with rectangler size windows all around it with lights. |
| Tampa, FL | 1979 | Tampa, Fl. 7/5/79, Saucer shape object lit from underneath moving west toward the international airport or Tampa bay. |
| Tampa (outskirts of), FL | 1978 | round object-big as about 5 hot air-realy big-- ballons-lights-windows-saw people aboard-spectators |
| Tampa, FL | 1975 | Zig Zagging Star Over Tampa Florida |
| Tampa, FL | 1973 | Whilewatching a friend of mine go-karting, I noticed a metallic cigar-shaped craft, several hundred feet in length move slowly over the |
| Tampa, FL | 1970 | 2 Orange Luminous Oval shape objects side by side zig zagging at the same time as they moved forward very fast. |
| Tampa, FL | 1970 | 36 year old reports an object he saw with his mother 31 years ago. |
| Tampa (18 miles of) ??, FL | 1967 | I WAS BORN IN 1951,SO I WAS 16 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME OF THE SIGHTING. I LIVED AND STILL LIVE ABOUT 5 MILES EAST OF LAKE THONOTOSASSA.I |
| Tampa, FL | 1952 | Triangulation radar fix (USAF, civil, Navy). I ordered intercept by SAC B-29. B-29 tracked object. Central fire control system locked |