Wellington, FL, USA
Stationary red light which emitted a bright flash after 10 min. high above the sky and changed colors. ((NUFORC Note: Arcturus? PD))
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: 720s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (102 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2018-03-20
- Where
- Wellington, FL, USA
- Shape
- Light
- Duration
- 12 minutes
- Geo
- 26.659, -80.241 · exact
- Slug
- light-over-wellington-fl-2018-97b204
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
- Wellington, FL shows up 37 times across the archive.
- 226 reports came from Florida in 2018.
- In the 2010s, 21.2% of reports described a light — the all-time rate is 20.3%.
Report
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