DeLand, FL, USA
Star? Airplane head lights? Helicopter? Nope a rotating dodecahedron shaped object vibrating intense color in the sky over DeLand FL.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (133 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-01-04
- Where
- DeLand, FL, USA
- Shape
- Other
- Duration
- 5-15 minutes
- Geo
- 29.028, -81.303 · exact
- Slug
- other-over-deland-fl-2012-3470fc
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
- DeLand, FL shows up 18 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
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.