CaseUnknown2009

Lakeland, FL, USA

Dome Shaped with Light Trail

Report quality: Moderate52/100

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 (28 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2009-07-21
Where
Lakeland, FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
Not Sure
Geo
28.039, -81.950 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-lakeland-fl-2009-497442
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…

In context

  • This is one of 62 reports logged in Lakeland, FL.
  • This case is one of 254 Florida reports filed in 2009.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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