CaseLight2005

Orlando, FL, USA

As I was looking I noticed this light, almost like a star or a plane, moving slowly.

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (84 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-10-08
Where
Orlando, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1 minute
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
light-over-orlando-fl-2005-31fc1a
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

4 reports came out of Orlando, FL in October 2005 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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