Ocean Springs, MS, USA
They looked like floating lights, but as we got closers they got bigger and started turning. We thought is was a drone but as it got in
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: 28s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-10-13
- Where
- Ocean Springs, MS, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 25-30 seconds
- Geo
- 30.411, -88.828 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-ocean-springs-ms-2016-edb04c
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
- One of 15 documented reports from Ocean Springs, MS in the UFOMYST archive.
- Mississippi logged 32 sightings in 2016.
- Light sightings ran at 21.2% during the 2010s (archive average: 20.3%).
Report
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