CaseFlash2015

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

I saw a green flash, then a pink flash, lasting approximately 1 second each, followed by a trumpet sound occurring twice.

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: 10s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (121 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2015-10-18
Where
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Flash
Duration
10 seconds
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
flash-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2015-887f4f
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

  • Ft. Lauderdale, FL has 32 sightings on file here.
  • 2015 brought 475 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 2% flash reports; the archive-wide figure is 1.7%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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