CaseRectangle2013

Sarasota, FL, USA

5 good sized orange to white rectangular to oblong moving objects

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 (65 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-10-25
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Rectangle
Duration
~1 minute
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
rectangle-over-sarasota-fl-2013-82da23
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

Sarasota, FL logged 4 reports in the single month of October 2013.

In context

  • One of 130 documented reports from Sarasota, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
  • Rectangle sightings ran at 1.7% during the 2010s (archive average: 1.7%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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