CaseFireball2012

Longwood, FL, USA

Four orange glowing globes floating quickly and silently in a fairly straight line then vanish one by one.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (106 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-08-31
Where
Longwood, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
28.703, -81.338 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-longwood-fl-2012-3d2020
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…

In context

  • Longwood, FL shows up 32 times across the archive.
  • 459 reports came from Florida in 2012.
  • In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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