CaseDisk1997
Orlando, FL, USA
A object appears over tree top one night.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 1500s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (41 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 1997-06-15
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- 25minutes
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- disk-over-orlando-fl-1997-bfd9f2
Wave
Part of a wave
The Phoenix Lights
Arizona, USA (Phoenix–Prescott–Tucson corridor)
The largest mass sighting in modern U.S. history — actually two events: an enormous silent V of lights (many insisted one solid craft blotting out stars) crossing the state around 8pm, and a string of stationary lights…
Local cluster
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Orlando, FL in June 1997 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 1997 brought 51 reports from Florida.
- The 1990s skewed 7.1% disk reports; the archive-wide figure is 5.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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