UFOMYST
CaseFireball2004

Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA

Reentry Object in northern sky 4/15 20:47 PM - Duration about 45 seconds ((NUFORC Note: Missile launch. PD))

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.

  • Duration parsed: 60s, a plausible sighting length
  • Moderate witness text (72 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • 1 other report from the same city within 3 days
  • NUFORC attached a skeptical explanation note (e.g. Venus, satellite, meteor)
When
2004-04-15
Where
Fort Lauderdale, FL, USA
Shape
Fireball
Duration
1 minute
Geo
26.122, -80.143 · exact
Slug
fireball-over-fort-lauderdale-fl-2004-ec6bff
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…

    Open wave →

In context

  • Fort Lauderdale, FL has 94 sightings on file here.
  • 2004 brought 207 reports from Florida.
  • The 2000s skewed 5.5% fireball reports; the archive-wide figure is 6.9%.

Nearby in space & time

within 30 days

Report

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