Gainesville, FL, USA
Multiple sightings by multiple whitnesses, unknown objects moving in strange ways, speeds, directions.
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-09-09
- Where
- Gainesville, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 2+ hrs
- Geo
- 29.652, -82.325 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-gainesville-fl-2010-b5a36e
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
- Gainesville, FL shows up 71 times across the archive.
- 221 reports came from Florida in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.