Orlando, FL, USA
Saw a flashing light moving zig zag and moving fast for about a minute and a half then dissappeared.
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (100 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-21
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Flash
- Duration
- fast
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- flash-over-orlando-fl-2013-39d275
Part of a wave
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 8 Orlando, FL reports filed in August 2013.
In context
- Orlando, FL shows up 368 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 2% of reports described a flash — the all-time rate is 1.7%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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