Merritt Island, FL, USA
On 10/28/09 a UFO hovering over state road 3 in merritt island florida emitting no sound or vibration except a bright amber fire light.
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: 300s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2009-10-28
- Where
- Merritt Island, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- 5 minutes
- Geo
- 28.359, -80.690 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-merritt-island-fl-2009-996b05
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…
In context
- This is one of 25 reports logged in Merritt Island, FL.
- This case is one of 254 Florida reports filed in 2009.
- Circle craft made up 8.9% of 2000s reports, vs 10.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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