CaseLight1993
Gainesville, FL, USA
A bright orange ball of light hovering approximately 500 feet above the tree line with no sound coming from it.
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (111 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1993-01-20
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-gainesville-fl-1993-a7db46
In context
- This is one of 71 reports logged in Gainesville, FL.
- This case is one of 10 Florida reports filed in 1993.
- Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Report
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