UFOMYST
CaseOther2016

Melbourne Beach, FL, USA

Early morning, bright red, morphing object hovers above the ocean, growing in strength and disappears

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: 390s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2016-09-24
Where
Melbourne Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
6-7 minutes
Geo
28.068, -80.560 · exact
Slug
other-over-melbourne-beach-fl-2016-4cc2c9
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Melbourne Beach, FL has 17 sightings on file here.
  • 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
  • The 2010s skewed 6.3% other reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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