Lakeland, FL, USA
Saw 3 crafts in triangle formation that rotated clockwise as a unit while simultaneously moving forward through the air. Two of the thr
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-07
- Where
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.039, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-lakeland-fl-2021-e971e4
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…
Local cluster
January 2021 was a busy month for Lakeland, FL: 3 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 62 reports logged in Lakeland, FL.
- This case is one of 218 Florida reports filed in 2021.
- Circle craft made up 11.9% of 2020s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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