Key West, FL, USA
I was in the back yard having a cigarette when I saw a shooting star or so I thought. The object looked like a fireball coming down fr
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-07-12
- Where
- Key West, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 24.555, -81.782 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-key-west-fl-2008-905884
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
- Key West, FL shows up 25 times across the archive.
- 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 5.5% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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