Orlando, FL, USA
Observed up to 9 reddish orange objects flying in commercial airspace near Orland International Airport.
Report quality: High77/100
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
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 4 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-11-10
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-orlando-fl-2012-ec0963
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
November 2012 was a busy month for Orlando, FL: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 368 reports logged in Orlando, FL.
- This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
- Circle craft made up 12.3% of 2010s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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