UFOMYST
CaseSphere2017

Palm Bay, FL, USA

Unusual bright red sphere.

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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (26 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2017-12-22
Where
Palm Bay, FL, USA
Shape
Sphere
Duration
2 minutes
Geo
28.034, -80.589 · exact
Slug
sphere-over-palm-bay-fl-2017-916390
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…

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Local cluster

Local cluster

This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Palm Bay, FL reports filed in December 2017.

In context

  • Palm Bay, FL shows up 34 times across the archive.
  • 334 reports came from Florida in 2017.
  • In the 2010s, 7.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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