Ponte Vedra, FL, USA
Object moving ~7° L of ursala major at ~5°-7° slant fron sky to earth. 4 sec or less. Magnitude of 4 or brighter than a/c.
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: 4s (an atypical range)
- Detailed witness text (122 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-03-10
- Where
- Ponte Vedra, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 4 seconds
- Geo
- 30.227, -81.380 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-ponte-vedra-fl-2016-a83393
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
- Ponte Vedra, FL has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
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.