CaseOther2004

Boca Raton, FL, USA

Strange Streak Across Sky December 7, 2004 Picture located on NASA’s ‘Astronomy Picture of the Day’ December 7, 2004 On the evening

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: 7200s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (131 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2004-12-07
Where
Boca Raton, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2 hours
Geo
26.359, -80.083 · exact
Slug
other-over-boca-raton-fl-2004-b17a26
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Boca Raton, FL has 69 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 207 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 7.6% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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