Lake Wales (east of ), FL, USA
We Saw Disc-Like Object, Flashing Bright Lights and Smaller Lights Dotting The Sky
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (82 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-01-24
- Where
- Lake Wales (east of ), FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 10 min
- Geo
- 27.901, -81.586 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lake-wales-east-of-fl-2005-ffb48a
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Lake Wales (east of ), FL in January 2005 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Lake Wales (east of ), FL has 3 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 6.5% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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