UFOMYST
CaseFormation2012

Winter Haven, FL, USA

10 perfectly spaced bright golden orange orbs as big as the sun changed from an E-W to a N-S position in the blink of an eye.

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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (125 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-09-12
Where
Winter Haven, FL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
45 seconds
Geo
28.022, -81.733 · exact
Slug
formation-over-winter-haven-fl-2012-5d5535
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…

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In context

  • One of 25 documented reports from Winter Haven, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.5% during the 2010s (archive average: 3.3%).

Report

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