odessa, FL, USA
Security camera captured a white sphere maintaining a steady altitude for hrs.
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 18000s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (78 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2021-01-28
- Where
- odessa, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 5 hrs
- Geo
- 28.194, -82.592 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-odessa-fl-2021-dfc507
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
- One of 3 documented reports from odessa, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 218 sightings in 2021.
- Sphere sightings ran at 6.1% during the 2020s (archive average: 6.5%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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