UFOMYST
CaseCross2016

DeLand, FL, USA

I was on the backside of Blue Lake looking at the stars with my friend. I noticed an intense orange circular glow up in the Northern sk

Report quality: Moderate55/100

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  • Duration parsed: 360s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-03-15
Where
DeLand, FL, USA
Shape
Cross
Duration
5-7 minutes
Geo
29.028, -81.303 · exact
Slug
cross-over-deland-fl-2016-8207ff
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

  • DeLand, FL shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 0.4% of reports described a cross — the all-time rate is 0.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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