CaseSphere1962

Orlando (nearby), FL, USA

In 1962, a witness near Orlando, Florida, reported a spherical object with lights encircling its equator hovering above a lake, visible for more than 25 minutes.

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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (161 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1962-06-30
Where
Orlando (nearby), FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
25+min
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-orlando-nearby-fl-1962-82f63a

In context

  • One of 1 documented reports from Orlando (nearby), FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 4 sightings in 1962.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.8% during the 1960s (archive average: 6.5%).

Report

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