CaseDisk2016
Altamonte Springs, FL, USA
Hovering in sky with no sound. ((NUFORC Note: Twinkling star? PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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
- Brief witness text (30 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2016-08-26
- Where
- Altamonte Springs, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 28.661, -81.366 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-altamonte-springs-fl-2016-678af8
Wave
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
- Altamonte Springs, FL shows up 17 times across the archive.
- 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 3.8% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.