UFOMYST
CaseSphere2015

Haines City, FL, USA

Atmospheric entry, then level flight for several minutes, plasma trail during entry then white sphere for flight phase.

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: 540s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-01-20
Where
Haines City, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
9 minutes
Geo
28.114, -81.620 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-haines-city-fl-2015-5b9fb2
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…

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In context

  • One of 8 documented reports from Haines City, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 475 sightings in 2015.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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