UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Ocala, FL, USA

It was amber orange in color glowing and pulsating behind a cloud or vapor floated very slowly and split in two

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (111 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-20
Where
Ocala, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
29.187, -82.140 · exact
Slug
light-over-ocala-fl-1997-8c9554
Wave

Part of a wave

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In context

  • One of 79 documented reports from Ocala, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 51 sightings in 1997.
  • Light sightings ran at 16.2% during the 1990s (archive average: 20.3%).

Report

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