Satellite Beach, FL, USA
First spotted, east going west, slowed over Patrick SB, then turned north. Watched until it slowly became too small to see.
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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (123 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2022-01-09
- Where
- Satellite Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Sphere
- Duration
- 10 minutes
- Geo
- 28.176, -80.590 · exact
- Slug
- sphere-over-satellite-beach-fl-2022-215389
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
- Satellite Beach, FL shows up 21 times across the archive.
- 105 reports came from Florida in 2022.
- In the 2020s, 6.1% of reports described a sphere — the all-time rate is 6.5%.
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.