UFOMYST
CaseCircle2020

Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

((HOAX)) I have video proof. ((NUFORC Note: Source elects to remain totally anonymous; provides no contact information. PD))

Report quality: Low28/100

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (19 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • Summary contains a HOAX marker
When
2020-01-23
Where
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
10 min
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
circle-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2020-9bdb9a
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fort Lauderdale, FL has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 2020 brought 403 reports from Florida.
  • The 2020s skewed 11.9% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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