West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Bright light trail attracted my attention with even brighter object flying
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-08-08
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cross
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- cross-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2019-f27317
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
- West Palm Beach, FL has 86 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 0.4% cross reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.3%.
Report
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