Cutler Bay, FL, USA
Fireball scatters into what appears to be 8 different lights. ((NUFORC Note: Possibly a parachute team with flare?? Good video! PD))
Report quality: Low35/100
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: 120s, a plausible sighting length
- Moderate witness text (61 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
- 2022-02-24
- Where
- Cutler Bay, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 2minutes
- Geo
- 25.578, -80.338 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-cutler-bay-fl-2022-50741e
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
- Cutler Bay, FL has 5 sightings on file here.
- 2022 brought 105 reports from Florida.
- The 2020s skewed 3.1% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Report
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