Melbourne, FL, USA
Unusual object in digital photo noticed only when downloaded on laptop...nothing seen during photo shoot
Report quality: Moderate47/100
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: 1s (an atypical range)
- Moderate witness text (104 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-09-25
- Where
- Melbourne, FL, USA
- Shape
- Diamond
- Duration
- 1
- Geo
- 28.084, -80.608 · exact
- Slug
- diamond-over-melbourne-fl-2005-c377a5
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
- Melbourne, FL has 60 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 1.6% diamond reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.4%.
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.