CaseCircle2012

Orlando, FL, USA

2 orange balls of flickering light moving slowly, in a line across the night sky, at low altitude, moving without making a sound.

Report quality: High73/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (129 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-12-31
Where
Orlando, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 - 2 minutes
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
circle-over-orlando-fl-2012-99ed7b
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

  • This is one of 368 reports logged in Orlando, FL.
  • This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
  • Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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