CaseCircle2018

Daytona Beach, FL, USA

2 very bright red circles in perfect formation headed out to sea followed by 4 single ones crossing sky. ((anonymous report))

Report quality: Moderate51/100

This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.

  • Duration parsed: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (104 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-08-12
Where
Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10
Geo
29.211, -81.023 · exact
Slug
circle-over-daytona-beach-fl-2018-372f84
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    The Navy Encounters & the UAP Era

    U.S. training ranges (Pacific off San Diego; Atlantic off Virginia), then worldwide reporting

    The wave that renamed the subject. The USS Nimitz 'Tic Tac' encounter (November 2004: radar drops from 80,000 ft to sea level in seconds, pilot visual by Cmdr. David Fravor, FLIR video) stayed classified-adjacent until…

In context

  • Daytona Beach, FL has 50 sightings on file here.
  • 2018 brought 226 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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