UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Palmetto, FL, USA

Orange orb in the sky that moved to a couple different spots then would sit still for 5 minute until zooming out of sight extremelyfast

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2020-07-04
Where
Palmetto, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 Minutes
Geo
27.521, -82.572 · exact
Slug
circle-over-palmetto-fl-2020-2ee7f8
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…

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In context

  • Palmetto, FL shows up 8 times across the archive.
  • 403 reports came from Florida in 2020.
  • In the 2020s, 11.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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