Orlando, FL, USA
bright light travelling east to west veryhigh in the sky similar to headlights comingthrough fog then disappeared suddenly
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: 48s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-04-23
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- light
- Duration
- 45-50 seconds
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-orlando-fl-1997-da1648
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
In context
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 51 reports from Florida.
- The 1990s skewed 16.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.