West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Orange fire ball with white energy spikes coming out of it when observed underneath the object when approaching us it looked like headl
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-02-05
- Where
- West Palm Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 26.715, -80.053 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-west-palm-beach-fl-2010-04d416
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
- West Palm Beach, FL shows up 86 times across the archive.
- 221 reports came from Florida in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 9.3% of reports described a fireball — the all-time rate is 6.9%.
Report
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