Champions Gate, FL, USA
Lighted object rose in the SSE sky and then remained motionless for almost 1 hour. Through binoculars one could see five white lights.
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 3600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-08-12
- Where
- Champions Gate, FL, USA
- Shape
- Rectangle
- Duration
- ~1 hour
- Geo
- 28.261, -81.619 · exact
- Slug
- rectangle-over-champions-gate-fl-2018-033c65
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Champions Gate, FL.
- This case is one of 226 Florida reports filed in 2018.
- Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.
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.