Orlando, FL, USA
At 9pm, I saw a round orange object traveling from the N heading SE. The object was up pretty high and traveling at a decent
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-09-12
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-orlando-fl-2017-9c6ea3
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…
Local cluster
Orlando, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of September 2017.
In context
- One of 368 documented reports from Orlando, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 334 sightings in 2017.
- Oval sightings ran at 4.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 4.3%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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