CaseLight1970
Homestead, FL, USA
A bright light was reported near Homestead, Florida, in September 1970, reportedly coinciding with a power loss at a nearby missile site before departing at high speed within about five minutes.
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (194 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1970-09-22
- Where
- Homestead, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 MINUTES
- Geo
- 25.469, -80.478 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-homestead-fl-1970-cd8778
In context
- Homestead, FL shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 12 reports came from Florida in 1970.
- In the 1970s, 11.6% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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