DeLand, FL, USA
3 bright orange glowing objects in sky over deland florida moving from east to west in triangular form.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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
- Moderate witness text (103 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-09-20
- Where
- DeLand, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 29.028, -81.303 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-deland-fl-2013-c65f86
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
- DeLand, FL has 18 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 8.4% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.