Indian River, FL, USA
it looked like it may have haad black squares on it,but it was very bright orange/white color and big
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2006-01-28
- Where
- Indian River, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 28.055, -80.576 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-indian-river-fl-2006-b24f7c
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
- Indian River, FL has 1 sightings on file here.
- 2006 brought 219 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% cylinder reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.6%.
Report
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