Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Facing SW, I seen this orb as if it were following the sun not with a camera but with the naked eye so I went out side with my camera a
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 1740s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-04-20
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 29 minutes
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-daytona-beach-fl-2017-77aa55
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
- Daytona Beach, FL has 50 sightings on file here.
- 2017 brought 334 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
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.