Davenport, FL, USA
Was outside and looked up North towards Clermont, saw sky bursting like lighting but sky was emitting orange then red and then yellow,
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-23
- Where
- Davenport, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 28.161, -81.602 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-davenport-fl-2019-8c42ff
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
- Davenport, FL has 22 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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