CaseLight2011

Islamorada, FL, USA

We saw an actual UFO tonight. About 6:40 PM. I was out with some friends watching sunset on my boat in Islamorada, FL. It was one ob

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: 15s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (132 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2011-03-05
Where
Islamorada, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
15 seconds
Geo
24.924, -80.628 · exact
Slug
light-over-islamorada-fl-2011-57d3b1
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

  • Islamorada, FL shows up 3 times across the archive.
  • 338 reports came from Florida in 2011.
  • In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.

Report

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