Dunedin, FL, USA
UFO Sighting on 6/26/2012 at 1:00am Intense Deep Bright Orange Intensifying Object Just Above Tree line on the West Coast of Fl.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (128 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-26
- Where
- Dunedin, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 28.020, -82.773 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-dunedin-fl-2012-6f5a8e
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
- Dunedin, FL shows up 22 times across the archive.
- 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
- In the 2010s, 1.5% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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