Orlando, FL, USA
Was driving and I saw a bright white light hovoring above some trees. It flashed real bright and vanished in the flash. There is an a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-04-28
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-orlando-fl-2005-5e68dc
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
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 1.8% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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