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
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
- 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%).
Report
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