CaseFireball2020

Miami, FL, USA

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Report quality: Moderate65/100

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: 80s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
When
2020-11-26
Where
Miami, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
80 sec
Geo
25.774, -80.194 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-miami-fl-2020-390599
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • This is one of 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
  • This case is one of 403 Florida reports filed in 2020.
  • Fireball craft made up 3.1% of 2020s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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