CaseOther2014

New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA

Cloud ships over Bethune Beach.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 9000s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (31 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-06-24
Where
New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Other
Duration
2.5 hours
Geo
29.026, -80.927 · exact
Slug
other-over-new-smyrna-beach-fl-2014-4e89de
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

  • New Smyrna Beach, FL shows up 18 times across the archive.
  • 644 reports came from Florida in 2014.
  • In the 2010s, 6.3% of reports described a other — the all-time rate is 6.9%.

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.