Palatka, FL, USA
Large, Slow Moving Triangular Shaped Object that seems to suddenly disappear...
Report quality: Moderate51/100
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: 20s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (79 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2005-03-01
- Where
- Palatka, FL, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- approx: 20 seconds or so
- Geo
- 29.649, -81.638 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-palatka-fl-2005-e23611
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
- Palatka, FL has 6 sightings on file here.
- 2005 brought 244 reports from Florida.
- The 2000s skewed 10.1% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 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.