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

  • Historical wave1997

    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 days

Report

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