CaseLight2009

Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA

Light cought on secuaret camery

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2009-07-07
Where
Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
20 sec.
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
light-over-ft-lauderdale-fl-2009-aaed4e
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.
  • 2009 brought 254 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 21.4% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.

Report

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