Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
A giant wing shaped object, little slower than the typical passenger jets that fly over regularly. No lights or sound at all.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 45s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2012-09-28
- Where
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Chevron
- Duration
- 45 seconds
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- chevron-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2012-c0d949
Part of a wave
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 32 reports logged in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- This case is one of 459 Florida reports filed in 2012.
- Chevron craft made up 1.1% of 2010s reports, vs 1.1% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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