Sanford, FL, USA
While driving we looked up at the night sky at 1:57AM and saw what appeared to look like a rocket with an orange flame in the sky
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (129 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-09-21
- Where
- Sanford, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.801, -81.273 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sanford-fl-2014-fe033b
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…
In context
- Sanford, FL has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 644 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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