Homestead, FL, USA
object like fire falling from the sky
Report quality: Moderate66/100
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: 55s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (37 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-02-28
- Where
- Homestead, FL, USA
- Shape
- Teardrop
- Duration
- 55 sec
- Geo
- 25.469, -80.478 · exact
- Slug
- teardrop-over-homestead-fl-2010-2bf75e
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…
Local cluster
This sighting is part of a small burst — 3 Homestead, FL reports filed in February 2010.
In context
- Homestead, FL shows up 33 times across the archive.
- 221 reports came from Florida in 2010.
- In the 2010s, 0.8% of reports described a teardrop — the all-time rate is 0.9%.
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.