CaseOval2005

Winter Haven, FL, USA

strange skies over Winter Haven

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2005-06-14
Where
Winter Haven, FL, USA
Shape
Oval
Duration
5+ minutes
Geo
28.022, -81.733 · exact
Slug
oval-over-winter-haven-fl-2005-5d522d
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

  • Winter Haven, FL has 25 sightings on file here.
  • 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 4.7% oval reports; the archive-wide figure 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.