CaseFormation2005

Jupiter, FL, USA

((NUFORC Note: Missile launch at 2055 hrs (EDT) PD)) 3 bright lights high in sky together then separated thin zig zagged rapidly

Report quality: Moderate49/100

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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (128 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2005-04-29
Where
Jupiter, FL, USA
Shape
Formation
Duration
20 + minutes
Geo
26.934, -80.094 · exact
Slug
formation-over-jupiter-fl-2005-23faa7
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

  • One of 48 documented reports from Jupiter, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 244 sightings in 2005.
  • Formation sightings ran at 3.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 3.3%).

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