UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Lake Wales, FL, USA

firey round object approached us and stop changing direction and color with no noise.

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: 210s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (85 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-08-18
Where
Lake Wales, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
3-4 minutes
Geo
27.901, -81.586 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lake-wales-fl-2016-a1ce7c
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…

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In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Lake Wales, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 365 sightings in 2016.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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