CaseOther2016

Clermont, FL, USA

Sitting on my third floor deck, I was watching what I assumed to be a plane. At first, all I could see was a bright red light. Suddenly

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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-07-21
Where
Clermont, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
5 minutes
Geo
28.549, -81.773 · exact
Slug
other-over-clermont-fl-2016-3e4e1f
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…

In context

  • Clermont, FL shows up 41 times across the archive.
  • 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

Report

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