Miami, FL, USA
Object description: sphere, color silver and shined downward in a strip of light. we were in a heavily populated area, bal harbour mia
Report quality: Moderate65/100
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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (134 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2019-01-05
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 1 minute
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-miami-fl-2019-17da86
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
- Miami, FL has 340 sightings on file here.
- 2019 brought 413 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 7.1% sphere reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.5%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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