CaseCircle2014

Miami, FL, USA

Steady white light remained stationary for about 5 hours. No noise, no other colors of light. I was capable of hearing other aircraft p

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: 18000s (an atypical range)
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-08-16
Where
Miami, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5 hours
Geo
25.774, -80.194 · exact
Slug
circle-over-miami-fl-2014-30f858
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…

Local cluster

Local cluster

Miami, FL logged 3 reports in the single month of August 2014.

In context

  • One of 340 documented reports from Miami, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 644 sightings in 2014.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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