Orlando, FL, USA
two orange lights cossing back and forth from one another
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 25s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (57 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-13
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20to30 sec.
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-orlando-fl-1997-94351c
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Orlando, FL reports filed in June 1997.
In context
- Orlando, FL shows up 368 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Florida in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 6.7% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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