A half-naked cross-dressing man in Florida has been leaving women's underwear and pantyhose on vehicles in various parking lots, police say.

Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office released an image on their Facebook page of the unidentified man wearing orange women's underwear and a t-shirt as he gets into a black car with no shoes on.

'We need to identify him before this escalates to a more serious situation,' Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said in the post.

'To be so bold in the middle of the day to do something like this. We want to identify this individual so we can reach out to him and make contact,' Steve Brandt, with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office, told WKMG.

A cross-dressing man (above) in Florida has been leaving women's underwear and pantyhose on vehicles in various parking lots in Palm Coast

Flagler County Sheriff Rick Staly said: 'We need to identify him before this escalates to a more serious situation'

An anonymous complaint which was filed with the sheriff's office two days ago says the man was tying pantyhose to Houligan's employee vehicles in the parking lot at the Palm Coast location.

'We don't know if this is a local person. We don't know if it's somebody traveling through town and stops in areas and does this,' Brandt said.

'It did happen over multiple days, so, we think it's probably somebody in this area.'

The report also said the same man followed employees from the Home Depot parking lot.

'(An employee) saw a man in women's clothing and (when) she came out to her car she had the women's clothing he was wearing on her car,' Michelle Visciglia, who works at Ruby Tuesday next door, told the television station.

A Houligan's employee warned others at Ruby Tuesday about the man after he reportedly left items on her car.

Deputies with the Flagler County Sheriff's Office released an image on their Facebook page of the unidentified man as he also targeted cars in the Home Depot parking lot (file above). Authorities said the man has done nothing legally wrong, but they just want to speak with him

Visciglia said when she gets off from work she runs to her car now.

Brandt said the man has done nothing legally wrong, but they want to speak with him to try and understand his behavior.

'This behavior in and among itself could be many different things,' Brandt said.

'We would like to identify this person and talk to them in case this behavior were to escalate into something else.'

Anyone with information is asked to call the Flagler County Sheriff's Office at 386-313-4911 or CrimeStoppers to remain anonymous at 1-888-277-TIPS.