Aviation encounter — 30 nautical miles from Sarasota, Florida — 1995-01-27

Private plane pilot and one passenger reported an aerial observation at or near 30 nautical miles from Sarasota, Florida on 27 January 1995. The account reports that a red-orange circular object (about 50 ft long) crossed the plane's flight path. An effect on the aircraft is marked, without further detail in this entry. Source: Dominique F. Weinstein, Unidentified Aerial Phenomena: Eighty Years of Pilot Sightings (NARCAP TR-04, February2001), PDF page54, table row23.