CaseLight2013

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
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…

Local cluster

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 days

Report

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