UFOMYST
CaseCircle2012

Orlando, FL, USA

I noticed numerous circular objects surrounded by lights [magenta in color] in the sky. They moved and hovered like helicopters.

Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-04-07
Where
Orlando, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
circle-over-orlando-fl-2012-9f8c30
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 →
Local cluster

Local cluster

5 reports came out of Orlando, FL in April 2012 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
  • 2012 brought 459 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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