Orlando, FL, USA
Sphere over Orlando, FL 07.11.15.
Report quality: Moderate58/100
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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (33 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2015-07-11
- Where
- Orlando, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- ~15 seconds
- Geo
- 28.538, -81.379 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-orlando-fl-2015-fcffd9
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…
Local cluster
July 2015 was a busy month for Orlando, FL: 5 separate reports.
In context
- This is one of 368 reports logged in Orlando, FL.
- This case is one of 475 Florida reports filed in 2015.
- Sphere craft made up 7.1% of 2010s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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