CaseCircle2008

Coral Springs, FL, USA

ROUND OBJECT PLATNIUM SILVER IN COLOR SEEMED TO CREATE HAZE AS IT MOVED IN A EVEN PATH HAD A VAPOR TRAIL ATTACHED TUBULAR IN SHAPE

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: 6s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (130 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-18
Where
Coral Springs, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
5-7 SECONDS
Geo
26.271, -80.271 · exact
Slug
circle-over-coral-springs-fl-2008-ca368c
Wave

Part of a wave

  • Historical wave2004

    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

  • Coral Springs, FL has 58 sightings on file here.
  • 2008 brought 303 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 8.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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