CaseLight2005

Lake Placid, FL, USA

Fast Moving Light High up in Atmosphere

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-04-16
Where
Lake Placid, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
27.298, -81.371 · exact
Slug
light-over-lake-placid-fl-2005-44e128
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

  • One of 11 documented reports from Lake Placid, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 244 sightings in 2005.
  • Light sightings ran at 21.4% during the 2000s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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