Lakeland, FL, USA
Two VERY bright glowing objects moving from north to south over Polk County on New Year's eve, 2019
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (99 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-12-31
- Where
- Lakeland, FL, USA
- Shape
- Oval
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 28.039, -81.950 · exact
- Slug
- oval-over-lakeland-fl-2019-b1fe34
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
- Lakeland, FL shows up 62 times across the archive.
- 413 reports came from Florida in 2019.
- In the 2010s, 4.1% of reports described a oval — the all-time rate is 4.3%.
Report
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