Lake Wales, FL, USA
Flashing lights that quickly moved across the sky, appeared and reappeared. ((NUFORC Note: Student report. PD))
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (75 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-05-12
- Where
- Lake Wales, FL, USA
- Shape
- Formation
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 27.901, -81.586 · exact
- Slug
- formation-over-lake-wales-fl-2005-8ea4dd
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
- Lake Wales, FL has 35 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 3.1% formation reports; the archive-wide figure is 3.3%.
Report
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