CaseDisk2008

Winter Park, FL, USA

Large object with no wings speeding up and slowing down through the sky. Had lights like an aircraft but 100% was not a plane or helic

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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-03-02
Where
Winter Park, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
30 sec
Geo
28.600, -81.339 · exact
Slug
disk-over-winter-park-fl-2008-11fc31
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…

In context

  • Winter Park, FL shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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