CaseCircle2018

Ocala, FL, USA

Bright white round light in south Ocala night sky,remained stationary and quickly faded out only to reappear again.

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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.

  • No parseable duration on file
  • Moderate witness text (115 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-07-17
Where
Ocala, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-10 minues
Geo
29.187, -82.140 · exact
Slug
circle-over-ocala-fl-2018-d8bf7c
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

  • Ocala, FL has 79 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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