Sanford, FL, USA
I was driving on I-4 headed east when I seen what I thought was an airplane because I was close to the Sanford Airport. As I got closer
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-04-21
- Where
- Sanford, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 28.801, -81.273 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-sanford-fl-2016-f957b1
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
- Sanford, FL shows up 51 times across the archive.
- 365 reports came from Florida in 2016.
- In the 2010s, 8.4% of reports described a triangle — the all-time rate is 9%.
Report
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