UFOMYST
CaseOval2017

Sarasota, FL, USA

Orange orbs moving single file over Sarasota FLORIDA airport. No noise. Low,, moving slow. Vertical disappearance.

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (114 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-31
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
20 minutes
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
oval-over-sarasota-fl-2017-f31c4c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sarasota, FL has 130 sightings on file here.
  • 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 4.1% oval reports; the archive-wide figure is 4.3%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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