Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
Craft was hovering over an area at the edge of Eglin Air Force base runway. Craft was triangle with bright lights at bottom and maneuv
Report quality: Moderate55/100
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
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-02-13
- Where
- Fort Walton Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 60 seconds
- Geo
- 30.421, -86.617 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-fort-walton-beach-fl-2004-31877a
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
- One of 17 documented reports from Fort Walton Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 207 sightings in 2004.
- Triangle sightings ran at 10.1% during the 2000s (archive average: 9%).
Report
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