CaseUnknown2005

Lake Wales (East of), FL, USA

Likely explaination for sighting in Lake Wales 1/24/2005

Report quality: Moderate60/100

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 (56 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
When
2005-01-24
Where
Lake Wales (East of), FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Geo
27.901, -81.586 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-lake-wales-east-of-fl-2005-3129f5
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Lake Wales (East of), FL reports filed in January 2005.

In context

  • Lake Wales (East of), FL shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 244 reports came from Florida in 2005.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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