West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Craft was round and gave off an extraordinary amount of light.
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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
- Moderate witness text (62 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 3 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-08-06
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2013-aaeb34
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…
Local cluster
West Palm Beach, FL logged 4 reports in the single month of August 2013.
In context
- One of 86 documented reports from West Palm Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
- Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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