Delray Beach, FL, USA
We were walking on the beach at night and saw a fast moving, oval/orb shaped orange light moving across the sky. It looked like it had
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 5s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-29
- Where
- Delray Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Egg
- Duration
- 5 seconds
- Geo
- 26.461, -80.073 · exact
- Slug
- egg-over-delray-beach-fl-2016-0d1175
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
- Delray Beach, FL has 51 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 0.7% egg reports; the archive-wide figure is 0.9%.
Report
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