Miami, FL, USA
Saw an orb flying around 70,000 feet. It was flying from west to east. Once it was over the ocean it accelerated forward very fast.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (131 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-01-25
- Where
- Miami, FL, USA
- Shape
- Unknown
- Duration
- 5min
- Geo
- 25.774, -80.194 · exact
- Slug
- unknown-over-miami-fl-2009-fa7e54
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 340 documented reports from Miami, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
- Florida logged 254 sightings in 2009.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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