UFOMYST
CaseLight1997

Merritt Island, FL, USA

White yellow light "jumping" around in the sky over Brevard county, FL

Report quality: Moderate51/100

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: 240s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (70 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
1997-06-01
Where
Merritt Island, FL, USA
Shape
Light
Duration
2 or 4 minutes
Geo
28.359, -80.690 · exact
Slug
light-over-merritt-island-fl-1997-98c56d
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave1997

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In context

  • This is one of 25 reports logged in Merritt Island, FL.
  • This case is one of 51 Florida reports filed in 1997.
  • Light craft made up 16.2% of 1990s reports, vs 20.3% across the whole archive.

Report

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