Lake Worth, FL, USA
Main craft, strange plumes, 2 'fireball-like' objects broke away from main object
Report quality: Moderate69/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (81 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2013-12-03
- Where
- Lake Worth, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- ~1 minute
- Geo
- 26.702, -80.045 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-lake-worth-fl-2013-e9b0eb
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Lake Worth, FL reports filed in December 2013.
In context
- Lake Worth, FL shows up 64 times across the archive.
- 543 reports came from Florida in 2013.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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