Winter Springs, FL, USA
We were jumping on the trampoline and we see a top-looking shape in the air hovering above us with no sound. it had lights surrounding
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 (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-02-01
- Where
- Winter Springs, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cone
- Duration
- about 5 min.
- Geo
- 28.699, -81.308 · exact
- Slug
- cone-over-winter-springs-fl-1997-bcf06d
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…
In context
- Winter Springs, FL shows up 20 times across the archive.
- 51 reports came from Florida in 1997.
- In the 1990s, 0.3% of reports described a cone — the all-time rate is 0.4%.
Report
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