Miami, FL, USA
It was triangular with 3 large circular lights one in each Corner and a smaller red light in the center the object was dark colored
Report quality: Moderate49/100
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
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-07-16
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 00:05
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-miami-fl-2016-300520
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 340 reports logged in Miami, FL.
- This case is one of 365 Florida reports filed in 2016.
- Triangle craft made up 8.4% of 2010s reports, vs 9% across the whole archive.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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