UFOMYST
CaseCircle2008

Merritt Island, FL, USA

Blue light spoted during planet line up

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (39 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2008-12-01
Where
Merritt Island, FL, USA
Shape
Circle
Duration
30
Geo
28.359, -80.690 · exact
Slug
circle-over-merritt-island-fl-2008-981a31
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

  • Merritt Island, FL shows up 25 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%.

Report

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