Lake Worth, FL, USA
Witnessed bright orange/yellow light hovering over building for a few seconds than in shot away in a straight direction very quickly ti
Report quality: Moderate59/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2017-07-28
- Where
- Lake Worth, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- Seconds
- Geo
- 26.702, -80.045 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-lake-worth-fl-2017-ffbb33
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
- Lake Worth, FL shows up 64 times across the archive.
- 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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