CaseOther2004

Winter Springs, FL, USA

strange orange golden sky with double rainbow with horizontal lightning for at least 30 mins.

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (93 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-07-04
Where
Winter Springs, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
30min
Geo
28.699, -81.308 · exact
Slug
other-over-winter-springs-fl-2004-3add06
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…

In context

  • Winter Springs, FL shows up 20 times across the archive.
  • 207 reports came from Florida in 2004.
  • In the 2000s, 7.6% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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