Merritt Island, FL, USA
Fireball over Merritt Island - leveled off and headed north toward space center
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2011-08-19
- Where
- Merritt Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 28.359, -80.690 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-merritt-island-fl-2011-9313c9
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
- Merritt Island, FL has 25 sightings on file here.
- 2011 brought 338 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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