Orlando, FL, USA
I observed about 9 or 10 balls of light going to one central destination.
Report quality: High77/100
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (73 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-10
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-orlando-fl-2012-ee18e1
Part of a wave
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Orlando, FL in November 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 daysReport
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.