CaseFireball2014

Davie, FL, USA

We were looking at the sky, and from the southwest saw an orange ball of light flying toward us. As it passed overhead, there was no so

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: 600s, a plausible sighting length
  • Detailed witness text (135 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
2014-01-11
Where
Davie, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
10 minutes
Geo
26.063, -80.233 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-davie-fl-2014-efc3e0
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

  • This is one of 50 reports logged in Davie, FL.
  • This case is one of 644 Florida reports filed in 2014.
  • Fireball craft made up 9.3% of 2010s reports, vs 6.9% across the whole archive.

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within 30 days

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