Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Orange sphere appeared, turned, blinked, then faded away into the distance
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 (74 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-03-12
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 2 min
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-daytona-beach-fl-2004-b3d63d
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
- One of 50 documented reports from Daytona Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
- Egg sightings ran at 1.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 0.9%).
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.