Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Chevron Wedge of approx. 20 small luminescent disks; in actuality one large individual UFO with round "running lights" below.
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1977-12-03
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- Seven Minutes
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-1977-561071
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In context
- This is one of 94 reports logged in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
- This case is one of 15 Florida reports filed in 1977.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 1970s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Report
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