UFOMYST
CaseSphere2018

Sarasota, FL, USA

In early 2018, a story was listed on Cincinnati.com that a Colerain Township man had seen strange lights in the sky. He described seein

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: 14400s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2018-01-07
Where
Sarasota, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
4 hours
Geo
27.336, -82.531 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-sarasota-fl-2018-6b8411
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…

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In context

  • One of 130 documented reports from Sarasota, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 226 sightings in 2018.
  • Sphere sightings ran at 7.1% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.5%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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