CaseDisk1968
Lakeland, FL, USA
Witnesses in Lakeland, Florida reported a flying saucer-shaped object in October 1968, an account later reported in the local Lakeland Ledger newspaper; the sighting lasted about fifteen minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 900s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (195 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1968-10-22
- Where
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 15 minutes
- Geo
- 28.039, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-lakeland-fl-1968-8a0794
In context
- One of 62 documented reports from Lakeland, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 8 sightings in 1968.
- Disk sightings ran at 23.5% during the 1960s (archive average: 5.9%).
Report
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