Miami, FL, USA
From one huge light to three and then five, in the shape of an L, then vertical to a horizontal line, the lights faded after 10 min.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (132 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-02-28
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- roughly 10 min
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-miami-fl-2010-e6d01c
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
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 221 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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