Port St. Lucie, FL, USA
strange object seen , ball of flame at the tail end ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))
Report quality: Low32/100
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: 180s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (51 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
- When
- 2004-04-15
- Where
- Port St. Lucie, FL, USA
- Shape
- Cylinder
- Duration
- 3min
- Geo
- 27.294, -80.350 · exact
- Slug
- cylinder-over-port-st-lucie-fl-2004-a51ebf
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 94 reports logged in Port St. Lucie, FL.
- This case is one of 207 Florida reports filed in 2004.
- Cylinder craft made up 1.6% of 2000s reports, vs 1.6% across the whole archive.
Report
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