Orlando, FL, USA
Orb in the clouds. ((NUFORC Note: We have looked at the video, and we see nothing that is suggestive of a genuine UFO. PD))
Report quality: Moderate42/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Brief witness text (18 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-08-10
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 0
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-orlando-fl-2006-107103
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
- Orlando, FL has 368 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 219 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 5.9% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Report
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