UFOMYST
CaseCircle2016

Lithia, FL, USA

Bright circle-shaped object appearing over Lithia, Florida. ((NUFORC Note: Possible star?? PD))

Report quality: Low32/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (59 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2016-10-14
Where
Lithia, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
27.850, -82.175 · exact
Slug
circle-over-lithia-fl-2016-cb34df
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 14 documented reports from Lithia, 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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