CaseUnknown2012

Lithia, FL, USA

Glowing orange object see in the eastern sky from Lithia FL.

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (60 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2012-01-19
Where
Lithia, FL, USA
Shape
Unknown
Duration
10
Geo
27.850, -82.175 · exact
Slug
unknown-over-lithia-fl-2012-6269c2
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 14 reports logged in Lithia, FL.
  • This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.

Report

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