Orlando, FL, USA
Orlando Florida Glowing Orange Balls About 90 seconds 6 orange balls traveling across sky East to West.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-01-12
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~90 seconds
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-orlando-fl-2013-3c2821
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
Orlando, FL logged 4 reports in the single month of January 2013.
In context
- One of 368 documented reports from Orlando, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
- Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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