Starke, FL, USA
((NUFORC Note: Witness does not provide any information about the sighting. PD))
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- No witness text on file
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-08-08
- Where
- Starke, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- Few seconds
- Geo
- 29.944, -82.110 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-starke-fl-2016-cc23b4
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…
In context
- This is one of 5 reports logged in Starke, FL.
- This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
- 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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