UFOMYST
CaseFireball2013

Lake Wales, FL, USA

Large red/yellow fireball followed by craft similar to the space shuttle

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-08-07
Where
Lake Wales, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
27.901, -81.586 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-lake-wales-fl-2013-da88f7
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…

    Open wave →
Local cluster

Local cluster

3 reports came out of Lake Wales, FL in August 2013 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Lake Wales, FL has 35 sightings on file here.
  • 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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