Daytona Beach, FL, USA
Firebal over Daytona. ((NUFORC Note: Witness reports significant change in ambient temperature. PD))
Report quality: Moderate48/100
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: 30s, a plausible sighting length
- Brief witness text (21 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 2014-05-17
- Where
- Daytona Beach, FL, USA
- Shape
- Fireball
- Duration
- 30 seconds
- Geo
- 29.211, -81.023 · exact
- Slug
- fireball-over-daytona-beach-fl-2014-33b670
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
- Daytona Beach, FL has 50 sightings on file here.
- 2014 brought 644 reports from Florida.
- The 2010s skewed 9.3% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.
Nearby in space & time
within 30 daysReport
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