CaseCircle2013

Largo, FL, USA

Bright orange circular craft, silent and fast.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (46 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2013-12-31
Where
Largo, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
27.910, -82.788 · exact
Slug
circle-over-largo-fl-2013-cc56e2
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Largo, FL reports filed in December 2013.

In context

  • Largo, FL shows up 59 times across the archive.
  • 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
  • In the 2010s, 12.3% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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