Sarasota, FL, USA
Bright red solid lights in sky - two
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (36 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-18
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2-3 minutes
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-sarasota-fl-2013-b4a276
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
October 2013 was a busy month for Sarasota, FL: 4 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 130 reports logged in Sarasota, FL.
- This case is one of 543 Florida reports filed in 2013.
- Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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