Parkland, FL, USA
Bright orange spheres move silently across south Florida sky for 90 seconds before disappearing.
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (96 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-06-25
- Where
- Parkland, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 90 seconds
- Geo
- 26.310, -80.237 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-parkland-fl-2013-04fa63
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
- Parkland, FL shows up 7 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 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.