CaseCircle2014

Orlando, FL, USA

I WATCHED THIS CIRCLE OBJECT MOVE FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SKY SLOWLY TO THE OTHER END. AND JUST STOPPED AND HOVERED THERE FOR 5 MINS BEFO

Report quality: High73/100

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 (134 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2014-02-20
Where
Orlando, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
28.538, -81.379 · exact
Slug
circle-over-orlando-fl-2014-b77452
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

4 reports came out of Orlando, FL in February 2014 alone — a local cluster.

In context

  • Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
  • 2014 brought 644 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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