Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
object vented some type of vapor and left a cone shaped vortex when it left the atmosphere
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: 1200s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (90 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2004-09-02
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 20 min
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2004-8f68c5
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 94 reports logged in Fort Lauderdale, FL.
- This case is one of 207 Florida reports filed in 2004.
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.