CaseCircle2004

Miami Beach, FL, USA

It was an orange ball of light just wobbling from side to side and up and down (it stayed in the same spot though). I went to go get my

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-02-29
Where
Miami Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
1 minute
Geo
25.791, -80.130 · exact
Slug
circle-over-miami-beach-fl-2004-17e1d2
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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 33 reports logged in Miami Beach, FL.
  • This case is one of 207 Florida reports filed in 2004.
  • Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.

Report

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