Apopka, FL, USA
~ Last night at around 9:30 big bang at the front door. Sounded like someone ran into the door? Or if someone threw a basket ball at it
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-10-23
- Where
- Apopka, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- up to 20 minutes
- Geo
- 28.676, -81.512 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-apopka-fl-2004-b2eb73
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
- One of 20 documented reports from Apopka, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
- Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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