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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