UFOMYST
CaseDisk2008

Palm Bay, FL, USA

((HOAX??)) Sunrise UFO in Palm Bay Florida. ((NUFORC Note: Date is flawed. PD))

Report quality: Low18/100

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: 750s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (32 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2008-03-11
Where
Palm Bay, FL, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
10-15 minutes
Geo
28.034, -80.589 · exact
Slug
disk-over-palm-bay-fl-2008-206ccb
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Palm Bay, FL shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
  • In the 2000s, 6.5% of reports described a disk — the all-time rate is 5.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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