CaseSphere2018

DeLand, FL, USA

This report is from an incident that occurred two or three days after we set the clocks back for daylight savings time in November, 201

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: 150s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-11-07
Where
DeLand, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2-3 minutes
Geo
29.028, -81.303 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-deland-fl-2018-ca84a3
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

  • One of 18 documented reports from DeLand, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 226 sightings in 2018.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

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.