UFOMYST
CaseDisk1977

Orlando, FL, USA

Flying saucer outside of Orlando, Florida summer of 1977

Report quality: Moderate58/100

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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
1977-07-15
Where
Orlando, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
15 minutes
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
disk-over-orlando-fl-1977-58f38f
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
  • 1977 brought 15 reports from Florida.
  • The 1970s skewed 22.6% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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