CaseCircle1998
Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
What looked like a bright green ball entering the atmosphere.
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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1998-09-15
- Where
- Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10sec
- Geo
- 28.068, -80.560 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-melbourne-beach-fl-1998-341ae0
In context
- This is one of 17 reports logged in Melbourne Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 107 Florida reports filed in 1998.
- Circle craft made up 6.7% of 1990s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.