UFOMYST
CaseUnknown2016

Sarasota, FL, USA

I saw an orange glow that initially I assumed was a helicopter or air craft. Many planes pass over our area and this did not the move

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (133 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-05-12
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-sarasota-fl-2016-33c51e
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

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In context

  • One of 130 documented reports from Sarasota, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 365 sightings in 2016.

Report

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