CaseLight2009

Boca Raton, FL, USA

one or two appeared outside changing from an orange light to white while roaming around a long cloud.

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 90s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-08-29
Where
Boca Raton, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
1-2 mins
Geo
26.359, -80.083 · exact
Slug
light-over-boca-raton-fl-2009-f7d0e2
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 69 reports logged in Boca Raton, FL.
  • This case is one of 254 Florida reports filed in 2009.
  • Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

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