Boca Raton, FL, USA
I was driving home from a new year’s party, about 1 am.
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (55 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-01-01
- Where
- Boca Raton, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 26.359, -80.083 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-boca-raton-fl-2014-8d2692
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…
Local cluster
3 reports came out of Boca Raton, FL in January 2014 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Boca Raton, FL has 69 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 644 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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