UFOMYST
CaseCircle2013

Hobe Sound, FL, USA

Orange obj. with fiery trail flying fast, in a straight line, S, along FL coastline, over Hobe Sound. ((NUFORC Note: Missile. PD))

Report quality: Moderate45/100

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: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (101 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2013-01-30
Where
Hobe Sound, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
<1 minute
Geo
27.059, -80.136 · exact
Slug
circle-over-hobe-sound-fl-2013-5e9f74
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…

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In context

  • One of 11 documented reports from Hobe Sound, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 543 sightings in 2013.
  • Circle sightings ran at 12.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 10.6%).

Report

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