Orlando, FL, USA
At 20:35 I was with my dog outside in my backyard. I happened to look up at the sky. From the north came a fast moving orb. It was very
Report quality: High73/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-04-10
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-orlando-fl-2019-e518ca
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…
Local cluster
5 reports came out of Orlando, FL in April 2019 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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