CaseSphere2014

Lake Panasoffkee, FL, USA

Dull white sphere moving slowly but steadily through a clear morning sky. Walked away for about 10 sec. When I returned it was gone.

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-22
Where
Lake Panasoffkee, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
15-25 seconds
Geo
28.777, -82.120 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-lake-panasoffkee-fl-2014-2c4fae
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…

In context

  • Lake Panasoffkee, FL shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 644 reports came from Florida in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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