New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
I was walking my dog when he stopped. My dog was staring into the sky. I saw cluster of lights forming a large circle.
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.
- No parseable duration on file
- Moderate witness text (118 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2016-12-31
- Where
- New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Circle
- Duration
- don't know
- Geo
- 29.026, -80.927 · exact
- Slug
- circle-over-new-smyrna-beach-fl-2016-ceb3fd
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
- New Smyrna Beach, FL has 18 sightings on file here.
- 2016 brought 365 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 12.3% circle reports; the archive-wide figure is 10.6%.
Report
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