CaseDisk2005

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
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…

Local cluster

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 days

Report

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