Homestead, FL, USA
Driving south on Florida Turnpike and noticed a strange 'fireball" with a tail falling to the earth very slowly. Thought it was a plane
Report quality: High73/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2010-02-28
- Where
- Homestead, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 3 minutes
- Geo
- 25.469, -80.478 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-homestead-fl-2010-6ef84c
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
3 reports came out of Homestead, FL in February 2010 alone — a local cluster.
In context
- Homestead, FL has 33 sightings on file here.
- 2010 brought 221 reports from Florida.
Report
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