CaseLight2008
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Bright light circles north star and then strangley moves away
Report quality: Moderate61/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-08-02
- Where
- Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- few minutes
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2008-3d488a
Wave
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
- This is one of 32 reports logged in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
- This case is one of 303 Florida reports filed in 2008.
- Light craft made up 21.4% of 2000s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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