Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
It was in the North East sky, looked like a long cigar shaped light beam, but no beginning or end point - if it were a beam it would ha
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-04-06
- Where
- Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 30+ minutes
- Geo
- 28.068, -80.560 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-melbourne-beach-fl-2014-9eeb2f
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 17 reports logged in Melbourne Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 644 Florida reports filed in 2014.
- Light craft made up 21.2% of 2010s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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