CaseFireball2014

Cocoa Beach, FL, USA

Laying in my backyard. Looked up and seen a fire looking thing and then gone. No noise.

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 (87 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-07-21
Where
Cocoa Beach, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
Evening
Geo
28.321, -80.609 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-cocoa-beach-fl-2014-a0a7e5
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…

In context

  • One of 21 documented reports from Cocoa Beach, FL in the UFOMYST archive.
  • Florida logged 644 sightings in 2014.
  • Fireball sightings ran at 9.3% during the 2010s (archive average: 6.9%).

Report

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