Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
I got out of my car at my worksite and looked at the moon and saw the object in the 4 o:clock position in orientation to the moon. Ther
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: 1800s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2020-07-06
- Where
- Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 30 minutes
- Geo
- 26.122, -80.143 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2020-e74f2d
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
- Fort Lauderdale, FL shows up 94 times across the archive.
- 403 reports came from Florida in 2020.
- In the 2020s, 1.6% of reports described a cylinder — the all-time rate is 1.6%.
Report
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