Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Neon Blue UFO
Report quality: Moderate62/100
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: 2s (an atypical range)
- Brief witness text (13 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- 2 other reports from the same city within 3 days
- When
- 2008-12-18
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 2 seconds
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2008-4b521f
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
This sighting is part of a small burst — 4 Fort Lauderdale, FL reports filed in December 2008.
In context
- Fort Lauderdale, FL shows up 94 times across the archive.
- 303 reports came from Florida in 2008.
- In the 2000s, 8.9% of reports described a circle — the all-time rate is 10.6%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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