Orlando, FL, USA
Bright orange/red half-moon looking object with what looked like a wavy flame tail.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (83 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-04-14
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2 - 4 mins
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orlando-fl-2008-2c0905
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
4 reports came out of Orlando, FL in April 2008 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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