Pensacola Beach, FL, USA
Bright orange balls of light flying in formation fading and reapearing over the water. ((NUFORC Note:
Report quality: Moderate45/100
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (101 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2007-08-16
- Where
- Pensacola Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 3-5 miunets
- Geo
- 30.334, -87.137 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-pensacola-beach-fl-2007-9e0d26
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
- This is one of 6 reports logged in Pensacola Beach, FL.
- This case is one of 264 Florida reports filed in 2007.
- Sphere craft made up 5.9% of 2000s reports, vs 6.5% across the whole archive.
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