Sarasota, FL, USA
Object was also seen 10/8/13 for about an hour both times the Light was bright like a bright star almost Object didnt move and left aft
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: 3150s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-10-08
- Where
- Sarasota, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 45-60 minutes
- Geo
- 27.336, -82.531 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-sarasota-fl-2013-c61484
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…
Local cluster
4 reports came out of Sarasota, FL in October 2013 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Sarasota, FL has 130 sightings on file here.
- 2013 brought 543 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 21.2% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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