Ocala (driving up I-75, location not exactly known), FL, USA
Bright red light moving in a straight path across the sky, and suddenly vaporizing into thin air.
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (97 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-06-17
- Where
- Ocala (driving up I-75, location not exactly known), FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 29.187, -82.140 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ocala-driving-up-i-75-location-not-exactly-known-fl-2012-d975e3
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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
- One of 1 documented reports from Ocala (driving up I-75, location not exactly known), FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 459 sightings in 2012.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
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