Miami, FL, USA
Five bright, round, white lights in formation were seen, three together and two together, but then they suddenly disappeared.
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 (125 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1978-06-30
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-miami-fl-1978-f27037
Part of a wave
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In context
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 1978 brought 12 reports from Florida.
- The 1970s skewed 11.6% light reports; the archive-wide figure is 20.3%.
Report
Full narrative lands with dossier import for famous cases, or the NUFORC free-text summary above for standard reports. This shell is SSR-ready: one D1 row (including connections_json) per page.