CaseCircle2016

Middleburg, FL, USA

Orange circles in a group of 6 then1-2 at a time about 1/2 way across the sky they started blinking then disappeared. They disappeared

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-10-23
Where
Middleburg, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10+ minutes
Geo
30.069, -81.860 · exact
Slug
circle-over-middleburg-fl-2016-875b21
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

  • Middleburg, FL shows up 14 times across the archive.
  • 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Report

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