UFOMYST
CaseChanging2012

Lake Wales, FL, USA

Discovered what I thought was a UFO was actually the star Sierius. It refracts colors thru our atmosphere while low in the sky then bec

Report quality: Moderate59/100

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  • No parseable duration on file
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2012-10-14
Where
Lake Wales, FL, USA
Shape
Changing
Duration
hours
Geo
27.901, -81.586 · exact
Slug
changing-over-lake-wales-fl-2012-93a29c
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • One of 35 documented reports from Lake Wales, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
  • Changing sightings ran at 2.4% during the 2010s (archive average: 2.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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