UFOMYST
CaseCircle2018

Sarasota, FL, USA

Round bright light emiting random white beams of light to the west and red beams of light to the east of it. No sounds.

Report quality: Moderate61/100

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (119 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2018-05-30
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
2 hours
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
circle-over-sarasota-fl-2018-637e38
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Sarasota, FL shows up 130 times across the archive.
  • 226 reports came from Florida in 2018.
  • 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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