Orlando, FL, USA
I saw a dark rectangular object with three bright lights hovering in the sky for about 5-10 minutes before it transformed and flew off
Report quality: High73/100
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: 1050s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-10-16
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 15-20minutes
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-orlando-fl-2011-485a8d
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
October 2011 was a busy month for Orlando, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 368 reports logged in Orlando, FL.
- This case is one of 338 Florida reports filed in 2011.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.5% of 2010s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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