Lake Wales, FL, USA
Saw red lights that turned green that moved too quickly to be a plane. Stopped in mid-air when I said "Oh my God."
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (124 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-09-06
- Where
- Lake Wales, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 3-5 seconds
- Geo
- 27.901, -81.586 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-lake-wales-fl-2020-9a4628
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…
In context
- Lake Wales, FL shows up 35 times across the archive.
- 403 reports came from Florida in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 21.4% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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